女性主义书单

评语：Daly continued her transvaluation of values. In this book about woman’s power, Daly extended French’s analysis of power-to. It is this power men have fed on, making women grow thin, weak, frail, even anorexic. To grow strong, women must resist the trap of androgyny. Daly provided new meanings, simultaneously prescriptive and descriptive, for terms.

评语：The more Daly reflected on the traditional understanding of femininity, the more convinced she became that women should not strive to be “feminine.” She claimed that because patriarchy had constructed both the positive feminine qualities of nurturance, compassion, and gentleness and the negative feminine qualities of pettiness, jealousy, and vanity, women should reject the seemingly “good” aspects of femininity as well as the obviously “bad” ones. They are all “man-made constructs” shaped for the purposes of trapping women deep in the prison of patriarchy.

评语：Daly focused on God as the paradigm for all patriarchs, arguing that unless God is dislodged from both men’s and women’s consciousness, women will never be empowered as full persons.

评语：Alison Jaggar formulated a powerful critique of liberal feminism. She claimed that the rational, free, and autonomous self that liberals favor is not neutral between the sexes. On the contrary, it is a “male” self

评语：The overall message of The Fountain of Age is that the people most likely to grow, change, and become more fully themselves as they age are precisely those people who move beyond polarized sex roles and creatively develop whichever side of themselves they neglected to develop as young men and women. In short, the happiest and most vital old men and women are androgynous persons.

评语：To the degree that The Feminine Mystique advised women to become like men, The Second Stage urged women to be like women. But The Second Stage did more than this. It also encouraged men and women alike to work toward an androgynous future in which all human beings manifest both traditionally masculine and traditionally feminine traits.

评语：as the critics saw it, the book failed to address a host of issues deeper than “the problem that has no name”—Friedan’s tag for the dissatisfaction supposedly felt by suburban, white, educated, middle-class, heterosexual housewives in the United States. In particular, The Feminine Mystique misjudged just how difficult it would be for even privileged women to combine a career with marriage and motherhood unless major structural changes were made both within and outside the family.