京沪青年女性在民国时期的自杀问题

本文将集中讨论两大问题:其一涉及到法国社会学大师埃米尔·迪尔凯姆的自杀学说。笔者认为,迪尔凯姆的自杀学说在论及性别问题时带有浓厚的男权主义偏见,他的分析偏移了他所大力提倡的社会事实研究法;其二民国时期京沪两地的青年女性自杀格局。根据笔者的分析,京沪女性的自杀问题在当时非常严重,两性自杀死亡率相近;两地不同年龄段的女性的自杀已遂和未遂事件中女青年所占的比例最高;诱因多是家庭矛盾或情感纠纷。本文意在厘清古典社会学自杀理论的局限,也在将中国近现代的自杀问题纳入到社会性别分析框架中探讨。

Suicide among Young Women in Beijing and Shanghai during the Republic of China

This paper addresses two major issues.The first is concerned with the great French sociologist Emile Durkheim's theory of suicide.In elaborating his theory,Durkheim showed a male chauvinism biased attitude to women's suicide and therefore his analysis of suicide behavior deviated from his advocacy for sociological research should be based on social facts.The second is concerned with young women's suicide pattern in Beijing and Shanghai during China's republican era when male and female suicides became neck ...