“Why can’t a woman be more like a man?”, exasperated Professor Higgins (My Fair Lady) when he failed to understand the indomitable Eliza Doolittle.

“为什么女人不能更像男人呢?” 电影《窈窕淑女》中，希金斯教授面对语言培训无效的艾丽莎(奥黛丽赫本饰)怒骂道。

阅读计划

Gender issues have perplexed, angered and baffled us for long. In lieu of claiming more opportunities or equality, we aim to avoid clichés and launch a reading project, in which, readers may better a knowledge and awareness of gender differences, not to examine testimony of their crystalized differences, but the causes underlying thereby, in the hope of changing the situation all the better. Given that female writers, who work with words and thoughts, have been physically, socially, economically and spiritually confined, who can guarantee male-dominant knowledge-rich books, can convey unbiased or equal ideas? Precisely, reams of books, despite females being an object of attention, failed to voice genuine females’ say, until women writers began to write themselves. Thus, literary perspective is selected as a primary means of entering the conversation of gender equality.

性别问题困扰，激怒和为难我们良久。关于性别平等或机会平等的呼喊此起彼伏，本阅读项目不重复这样的窠臼：读者通过阅读该书对性别差异加深认识，并能对性别差异有迁移性的意识;我们不是证明具体差异的存在，而是审慎地探寻差异背后的本质原因，从而能更好地改善性别问题。从历史视阈看，即使是擅长于文字和思想表达的女性作家也深受社会经济因素的影响而身心受限， 谁能保证充斥男性话语权的书能传达毫无偏见，不偏不倚的真相?准确来说，卷帙浩繁的文献以女性作为关注对象，却没能表达女性真正所想，直到女性作家开始用写作为自己发声。故而，本阅读计划将文学视角作为进入性别平等对话的根本方式。

阅读任务

In this reading project, we seek to resolve:

What is the distinction between sex and gender?

How are females conditioned to perform the socially constructed roles?

How do males take gender privileges for granted?

Who painstakingly uttered her voices and rewrote Literary Herstory?

What impedes gender equality?

A self-examination with individual thinking.

在该阅读任务中，我们需要回答：

生物性别与社会性别的区别是什么?

女性是如何被规训来履行社会角色?

男性是如何将性别优势当作理所当然?

哪些女性努力喊出自己的声音并且改写“文学史”?

什么阻碍了性别平等的实现?

辩证思考与自我审查。

In this reading project, our highlight is to engage AP students to enter the academic conversation of gender by directing a scholarly discussion: not only thinking academically while listening, but also talking academically. The schedule is as follows:

在该阅读任务中，我们的亮点是：AP 英语语言与写作课上的学生以主持的身份参与学术讨论，他们不仅要训练“学术性思考”，还要训练“学术性话语”。活动安排如下：

Book 书目: A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (self-prepared, see preferred edition above)

Time 时间: 4:35-5:35 pm (Friday)

Place 地点: Room 423

Host 主持: Gloria and students with AP English Language and Composition

Participants 参与者: 5 (max) open to students and teachers

光华美高报名、参加入学测试及校园开放日，请拨打： ，或通过下方报名通道登记。