开题报告：荆棘鸟中的女性形象.docVIP

毕业论文开题报告 学 生 姓 名： 学 号： 学 院、系： 专 业： 论 文 题 目： ?Female?Images?in?The?Thorn?Birds 《荆棘鸟》中的女性形象 指导教师: 2015 年 3 月 20 日 毕 业 论 文 开 题 报 告 1．结合毕业论文情况，根据所查阅的文献资料，撰写2000字左右的文献综述： Literature Review This part discusses the previous studies on The Thorn Birds, which include The Bible prototype perspective, inter-textuality between The Bible and the work,comparative study with some other feminist works, structuralism and eco-criticism aspects. It also briefly introduces the author and her main works, explains the theoretical basis of this thesis, especially the main arguments of radical feminist theory. Radical feminism issues serious criticism against patriarchy from the perspectives of religion, economic relations, class status and sexuality. It argues that patriarchal culture is the root cause for the inequality of all forms. Moreover, some radical feminist holds the view that sexual inequality, especially the biological difference, is the root cause of female oppressions and only the elimination of the difference can guarantee the emancipation of women from the biological bondage. 1 Research on Feminism In dictionaries, feminism is defined as advocacy of the rights of women (based on the theory of equalities of the sexes). However, Feminist critic Ruth Robbins argues that feminism is by no means a single category with clear limits, fixed in a single semantic space. Her understanding of this word is that it is anti-totalizingand it does not have one catch-all, all-or-nothing meaning, but many meanings which depend on contexts, subject positions, languages, the material worlds we inhabit, and our own psychic spaces, all mixed up together. Kaplan shares Robbinss opinion and offers several explanations of feminism: the word feminism is used in some cases to refer strictly to support of the suffrage movement. In other cases, it refers more broadly to a defense of women against oppression by men. In yet others, it refers to a totalizing world view, an