试论弗·道格拉斯的女权思想

弗·道格拉斯不仅是19世纪美国黑人的著名领袖,也是美国女权运动的先驱者之一。他以美国《独立宣言》所宣称的人人生而平等和代议制政府原则为基础,把黑人解放和妇女解放思想巧妙地结合起来,变成有机的整体。但是,道格拉斯首先是一位黑人领袖,他在两者不能兼顾的时候,总是优先考虑黑人的解放问题,这就注定了他的女权思想的局限性,与女权运动领导人的关系也不可能一帆风顺,而是既有冲突,也有合作。

Frederick Douglass' Thought on Women's Rights

Frederick Douglass was not only the most well-known American black leader in the 19th century, but also one of the forerunners of American Women's Rights Movement. Devoting himself on the principles of"all man born equal"and the representative system of government announced by The Declaration of Independence, Douglass combined the American women's liberation thought and the American blacks' into an organic whole. As a black leader, however, Douglass always gave priority to the latter when he couldn't give same consideration to the two. Therefore, it was unavoidable that he couldn't have a smooth sailing in dealing with the contradictions between the two, there would be both conflicts and cooperation between him and the leaders of American Women's Rights Movement.