A Study Of George Sang 's Feminist Aesthetics

Feminist criticism, as a opposition to the dominant male voice, starts from the second half of the 19th century. Women’s liberation and self-consciousness were awakening in the mainstream values of patriarchal society. In 1860s, feminists continue to express opposition to the patriarchal society that for women’s right to choose after fighting for the right to education. Women once again issued their own aspirations.George Sand is the pioneer of the feminist movement in nineteenth century, showing her practice feminist movement. She was in a patriarchal oppressive situation, the issue of authority against male oppression of sound in her writings, and women’s consciousness was awakening. By writing practice, she built female identity as an independent individual. She thought about how to break out of thinking and behavior under the plight of patriarchal pressure. Besides, she dug and revealed the aesthetic characteristics of women in the natural aesthetic spirit, affecting the contemporary writers and the descendants of the writer.As a pioneer of feminist, George Sand analyzed the social status and expressed the emotional appeal in her works. She built women’s self-image of love, marriage freedom and female consciousness. George Sand found human isomorphism and feminine features. Furthermore, men and women have masculine features. After all, her thought was the production of feminist enlightenment, and there exists contradictions points.This paper used text reading method and comparative contrast to analyze George Sand’s novels, essays and letters.George Sand summarized and revealed that women actively made self-identity construction under oppressive totalitarian society of men. Women’s social reality bound, women’s self-consciousness performed women’s distress and proposed gender equality. Women are demanding the liberation aspirations.