广东自梳女 ：女性的独身现象及其辨析 = An analysis and study of Kwangtung Tzu-shu nü : the phenomenon of female celibacy

• Main Author: 蔡舒岚 Cai, Shulan
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: Chinese
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::History::Asia::China::Chinese overseas; DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::Chinese
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/54924
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

十九世纪五十年代在中国珠江三角洲地区盛行的自梳女，目前已得到许多学者的关注及研究。这些讨论就包括了西方学者，中国大陆、香港、台湾以及东南亚地区如新加坡的学者们对其进行的各种采访、资料收集、口述记录和田野调查等。本论文详细收集和整理了各方学者的资料、讨论及观点，并对这些资料进行了辨析和重新整合。尝试重新整合及复原自梳女群体较为完整的历史面貌和论述，试图解释自梳女作为一个特殊的独立女性群体，是如何在主流父权社会里得以产生及发展的。本论文也尝试以现代女性主义理论和角度分析讨论自梳女的独身现象。以此认为自梳女已具备女性自我觉醒的雏形，提出自梳女群体中衍生的“金兰结义”可能夹杂同性情爱的论述，对此做出辨析及讨论。Tzu Shu Nü, the special female group in the early nineteenth to the early twentieth century of Canton Delta China, has been the concern of many scholars and researchers. Those discussions included the scholars from Western countries, mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia such as Singapore. They had conducted various interviews, field investigations, collected the data and oral-history materials.Firstly, in order to re-integrate and rehabilitate the more complete historical features of Tzu Shu Nü, this thesis details the parties and scholars previous documents, discussions and ideas, and also tries to differentiate and analyze those information. Secondly, this thesis also attempts to give a new explanation of why Tzu Shu Nü as an independent female group could be emerged and developed in the early China patriarchal society. This thesis makes a detailed analysis about this female celibacy phenomenon in a modern feminist perspective way. Thus Tzu Shu Nü could be assumed to be the woman with feminist consciousness. And the sworn friendship - “JIN LAN JIE YI” between pairs of individuals may have lesbian practices in connection with sisterhoods.