作者 ｜
石之瑜(台灣大學政治學系)
摘要 ｜
台灣的女性經歷著全球化潮流對女性的貶抑，這是透過本土父權完成的。但台灣的女性進入全球化專業領域，並受到全球化潮流的歡迎，則是在擺脫本土父權，且有助於西方將本土父權透過她們加以女性化。經驗似乎顯示，台灣的專業婦女對主體性的渴求相對較低，對國際規範與本土實踐之差異，則容忍度相對較高，故由專業女性向台灣輸入全球化規範最為平順。同理，女性化的台灣對主體性的渴求也低於中國大陸，而對全球化潮流與中國文化的衝突，容忍度亦較大，故由台灣向中國傳送全球化規範與價值，較諸直接進入中國，其間產生的碰撞要小得多。台灣不能接受女性化的話，不僅意味著中國大陸亦不可能默許女性化工程，也使西方缺乏一個重要的軟化中國的機制，此何以台灣專業婦女進入全球化的專業領域，其意義不單純只是台灣本身的性別政治正在變遷，更關乎何謂「中國」之類的後殖民主義疑問。
關鍵字 ｜
中國、台灣、全球化、女性主義、女性專業人士、後殖民主義
Title ｜
Responding to Globalization: Taiwanese Professional Women in Postcolonial—Feminist China Studies
Author ｜
Chih-Yu Shih(Department of Political Science, Taiwan University)
Abstract ｜
Discourses on globalization still seem to need an other. They set up encoded dichotomies such as cosmopolitan vs. Parochial, capitalism vs. Tradition, and so on where the first and second terms implicitly stand for “the global” and “the local,'” respectively. These codifications carry gender associations as well with “masculinity” valorized over “femininity.” Creating the other thus guarantees the continuance of feminizing projects in the world political economy. Evaluations of China from the Western-trained “experts” are a case in point. They need to objectify China into a separate and underdeveloped other; or else their sense of observational and ge9opolitical (masculine) superiority may be undermined. Professional women in Taiwan, in contrast, offer one model of “mobile subjectivities” in a global economy. Caught between a masculinizing globalization process, on the one hand, and a patriarchal local culture, on the other, professional women in Taiwan exhibit a relatively low demand for one clear-cut cultural identity, thereby rendering them ideal agents to cope with the contradictions and demands of globalization. Similarly, Taiwan is caught in-between. It must operate within a context of U.S.-led liberal internationalism mediated through a recent legacy of Japanese economic and cultural dominance while keeping alert to a Chinese chauvinism, also extant within the is island, but rising to threatening levels of nationalism just across the straits. Accordingly, this paper suggests that women professionals in Taiwan may serve as an appropriate model not only for cross-strait relations but for China’s internationalization as well.
Keywords ｜
China, Taiwan, Globalization, Feminism, Professional Women, Postcolonialism