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Gender: a Potential Aesthetic Dimension——Introduction to "Chinese Sexual Poetics" in the Perspective

Article Summary by: TsingHua    

Original Author: Journal of Xiangtan University(Philosophy and Social Sciences)
"Chinese sexual poetics" has a tradition of not considering women as a social minority but looking upon women as the other
half of the human kind.It views human right as the right of human agents,therefore leaves a gap between itself and traditional poetic forms,which fosters a potential aesthetic dimension: sex.This new dimension adds to the construction of sexual cultures fresh ideologies and acts.It stress: 1.Chinese local sexual poetics;2.localization of western sexual poetics finds expression in respecting fundamental work sexual poetics,that is,the research of feminist literary works,and relyies on the concentrated representation of sexual poetics,that is, feminist literary criticism.This new tradition preserves divergences,opposing the principle of sex for sexual sake,and focuses on the historical,current and future significance of sexual poetics.Sexual poetics is promising literary criticism which takes into consideration the history and current situation of sex opposition and constructs relevance to global cultural,ethic justice."Chinese sexual poetics" is an echo to the global cultural ecological reality and at the same time marks itself with a rich flavor of local culture.It proves that feminism in its true sense is responsible for the world.
Published: January 28, 2006
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