Abstract

Over the past decade, powerful mothers in cinema have reappeared in the fantasy genre in the form of “witches”. Some witches’ stories, such as that of Maleficent (the wicked witch from the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty), have even been rewritten to place greater emphasis on maternal values, while simultaneously having feminist undertones and subverting the ways in which witches’ stories have been told previously. In contrast to the widely regarded belief that only evil witches (who are often also read as femme fatales) are considered to be “feminist”, the author argues that recently, witches that are both good and feminist have started to come to the fore. Significantly, the source of these witches’ power is their display of motherhood, which is an issue that many feminists (especially those who deny gender difference) have been grappling with for some time, as motherhood and feminism seem to be on two opposite ends of the spectrum. Thus, the author argues that, as is displayed in science fiction heroines from the 1980s and 1990s who are often discussed in feminist circles, these witches’ maternal values do not undermine their transgressive potential, as it is conventionally assumed, but rather become the source of their empowerment.

摘要

在过去的十年里，电影中的强大母亲以“女巫”的形式重新出现在奇幻流派中。一些女巫的故事，例如玛琳菲森特（经典童话《睡美人》中的邪恶女巫）的故事，甚至被改写为更加强调母性价值，同时具有女权主义色彩并颠覆女巫故事的方式之前被告知。与普遍认为只有邪恶的女巫（通常也被称为蛇蝎美人）被认为是“女权主义者”的观点相反，作者认为，最近，既善良又善良的女巫被认为是“女权主义者”。女权主义者开始崭露头角。值得注意的是，这些女巫的权力来源是她们对母性的表现，这是许多女权主义者（尤其是否认性别差异的人）一段时间以来一直在努力解决的问题，因为母性和女权主义似乎处于两个对立的两端。频谱。因此，作者认为，正如在女权主义圈子中经常讨论的 1980 年代和 1990 年代科幻小说女主角所展示的那样，这些女巫的母性价值观并没有像传统假设那样削弱她们的越轨潜力，而是成为了源头。他们的权力。