【VIP专享】英语短篇小说选读 Kate Chopin 凯特肖邦30

Backgrounds:
• Gender: is both an effect of biology and a
social construction. In patriarchal societies, that construction will tend to favour men over women.
• Female consciousness: natural female consciousness including the pursuit for beauty and freedom, and the awareness of self-attractiveness, self-worthiness, selfexistence, self-esteem, self-enjoyment, and also the desire for intellectual, emotional and sexual fulfilment.
• Gender role: refers to the behavioural
role or quality socially and culturally sanctioned for males and females.
• Gender identity: refers to the self-
• She lambasted society for its perpetual close-mindedness in a time when righteousness was considered to be an attribute, and she helped to generate more enlightened attitudes among both the women and men of her time.
• She was a woman whose feminist viewpoints were far ahead of her time, which of course garnered her more than her share of criticism.
• In a time when women were expected to behave "properly" and sexual desire was considered to be something only experienced by men, Chopin spoke with exceptional openness about human sexuality.
Died
August 22, 1904 (aged 54) St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Occupatio Novelist, short story
n
writer
Genres realistic fiction
Notable The Awausness: awareness of the elements that prevent women from developing in the social institutional structure; the conscious pursuit for political and economical subjectivity in society.
Ⅰ. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION
• A woman ahead of her time
• She was an American author of short stories and novels. She is now considered by some to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century.
Kate Chopin
Ⅰ. A Brief Introduction
Ⅱ. Life
Ⅲ. Major Works and Writing Style
Ⅳ. Setting—The Storm
Born
Katherine O'Flaherty February 8, 1850 St. Louis, Missouri, United States
• Femininity: submissive, passive,
mindless, emotional, sensual, fragile, nurturing, caring, relational, domestic and etc.
• Masculinity: aggressive, competitive,
awareness of one’s biological, social and cultural characteristics. It is the conformation and approval of one’s sexual identity. Gender identity is the internalisation of gender role, while gender role is the externalised form of gender identity; both are based on biological elements.
smart, strong-hearted, tough, rational, social, independent and etc.
• Simone de Beauvoir says in The Second Sex: “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature."