论《旧秩序》中女性社会性别的演变

On the Evolution of Women’s Gender Roles in The Old Order

摘要: 二十世纪美国南方女性作家凯瑟琳·安·波特，以其深刻而精湛的中短篇小说而闻名文坛。波特的短篇小说《旧秩序》，立足19世纪与20世纪美国南方在内战后由衰败到重建的时代背景，围绕主人公“索菲娅·简小姐”的一生，向读者讲述了美国南方社会性别分工的巨变和女性性别意识的觉醒。小说中，波特对新旧两代女性社会性别形象的描写，不仅揭露和批判了旧社会性别文化对女性自我意识发展的压迫，更体现了作者对妇女问题的关注，以及女性追求独立意识和对性别权利的重视。

Abstract: As the representative of American southern female writers in the 20th century, Katherine Anne Porter is famous for her profound and exquisite short stories. Based on the Southern society that was rebuilt after the Civil War at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Porter’s short story, The Old Order, shows the great changes in the gender division of labor and the awakening of women’s gender consciousness in the South around the life of the protagonist, Miss Sophia Jane. Through describing the female images of the old and young generations, Porter not only exposes and criticizes the oppression of the gender culture in the old society on the development of female self-consciousness, but also reflects her concern for women’s issues that pursue independent consciousness and gender rights.