Vernacular Discourses Of Gender Equality In The Post-War British Working Class
Vernacular Discourses Of Gender Equality In The Post-War British Working Class
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战后英国工人阶级关于性别平等的白话话语
DOI：
10.1093/pastj/gtab012
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发表时间：
2022
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影响因子：
1.8
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Sutcliffe-Braithwaite F
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Sutcliffe-Braithwaite F
为什么在1945年后的一段时间里，西方女性的角色发生了如此巨大的变化？这些年来，这些角色发生了重大变化，对女性自我的主流理解也发生了重大变化，从基于自我否定的模式转变为基于自我实现的模式。这种转变的根源往往在于1968年后的女权运动和经济变革。然而，这篇文章通过英国的视角审视这个问题，将工人阶级妇女作为这些变化的驱动力，利用对来自煤田社区的100多名妇女的口述历史采访。在1950年后的几十年里，这些女性建构了一种新的白话性别平等话语，对女性在社会中的地位产生了深刻的影响。这种白话话语与1968年后的女权主义有一些相似之处，但它没有关注家务劳动和有偿劳动的分工，也没有关注性暴力，而是强调妇女的自主权、个性和发言权。在建设它的过程中，工人阶级妇女借鉴了战后普遍存在的关于平等和民主的思想，个人主义和个人成就主义的论述，以及“陪伴式”婚姻和“以孩子为中心”的育儿方式的论述，以维护妇女的权利。通过这样做，她们不仅把妇女塑造成妻子和母亲，而且把她们塑造成自由和平等的个体。
Why did women’s roles change so dramatically in the West in the period after 1945? These years saw major changes in those roles, and in dominant understandings of female selfhood, from a model based on self-abnegation to one based on self-fulfilment. The roots of this shift have often been located in the post-1968 feminist movement and in economic change. Examining this question through the lens of Great Britain, this article, however, centres working-class women as drivers of these changes, drawing on oral history interviews with over 100 women from coalfield communities. In the decades after 1950, these women constructed a new vernacular discourse of gender equality which had profound implications for the position of women in society. This vernacular discourse shared some similarities with post-1968 feminism, but rather than focusing on the division of domestic and paid labour, or sexual violence, it emphasized women’s autonomy, individuality and voice. In constructing it, working-class women drew on pervasive post-war ideas about equality and democracy, discourses of individualism and individual fulfilment, and discourses of ‘companionate’ marriage and ‘child-centred’ parenting in order to make claims for women’s rights. Through doing so, they constructed women not only as wives and mothers, but also as free and equal individuals.