本文从中国性别制度和城市结构的历史变迁出发,通过对中国封建社会、半殖民地半封建社会、社会主义计划经济时期、社会主义市场经济时期四个历史阶段的女性生活和城市特征进行考察,分析了不同的性别结构与域市空间结构之间的关系,即:以及在不同的性别制度下女性社会生活在城市空间中的具体体现,即:集权制城市中女性空闽的附属性、二元城市中女性空间的隔离性、单位制域市中性别空间的同一性、消费性城市中女性空间的主导性。随着消费文化的发展,女性将对中国城市化进程和空间结构演化产生越来越重要的影响。
Feminist geography is one of the main approaches of geography in later 20th century and has significantly theoretical influences. According to the feminist theory, classic geography solves space problem by neutral or male standard based on male knowledge system and value evaluation, The distribution of space resources is very unfair between men and women, demonstrating clearly that women is subordinated by men. Feminist theory focuses on revealing and changing the essence of male system in geographic research area and tries to establish female geography to differ from present theories. Feminist theory changes the concept of space. Gender difference and gender culture become one of the essential thoughts of geography research, Feminist theory has widely been used in urban development in the West while little attention has been paid to it in China. From the viewpoint of gender development in China, this paper tries to "find" women in territory of both history and geography, aiming to find the relationship between gender system and urban structures. Compared with men, women's life has been restricted by social culture and social system since ancient China and had been changed greatly after 1949. But there are still many problems and differences in the evolution process of gender culture and urban space. Based on the evolution of gender system in China, this paper discusses women lives and urban structures in 4 history periods: in the ancient feudal era, it was the clan and man-powered society and city was Unitarianism; in the modem colonist era, influenced by both of the women's movement and traditional culture, city was dualistic; in the socialist planned economy era, gender equality had developed and city became more functionally mixed and levelly structured; in the contemporary consuming era, women and materialism have become the dominations in city restructuring. This paper concludes that urban structure is identical both with gender system and the development of consumer society, women can influence t