曾心儀小說中的女性性工作者研究

A Study of Female Sex Workers in Zeng Xin-Yi’s Novels

本文在梁欣芸的博士論文對臺灣當代妓女小說題材進行整體性研究的啟發下，再加上性別元素以深化議題。當研究者提出黃春明〈看海的日子〉、〈莎喲娜啦・再見〉都是奠基在男性中心意識的觀察，據此觀點進而企圖挖掘女性作家有別於男性作家對女性性工作者的關懷面向。本文以曾心儀九篇描寫女性性工作者的小說為研究範疇，得出三點發現。首先，曾心儀反對女性為了家庭經濟而成為性工作者，但不得不然者，則是女性自主的選擇，而非被迫或遭賣出，再現1970年代臺灣已逐漸進入資本主義社會的性商品化現象，同時也提出女性為家庭經濟犧牲的反思。其次，曾心儀關懷女性性工作者的主體性，描寫她們作為性工作者的矛盾心理、職業傷害等內在感受，以及離開性工作後所面臨的困境，立體細膩地揭示女性性工作者的形象與心境。最後，曾心儀從女性意識發聲，批判臺灣跨入美軍和日本度假觀光體系的跨種族男性同盟，並自國族寓言隱喻獨立自主的國族意識。本文正是以曾心儀小說中女性性工作者的題材為研究對象，指出女性作家更關懷女性的主體意識，也隱隱開展出不同的國族寓言，藉此再現不同性別對於女性性工作者的書寫差異，進而達到對話、補充的目的。

This study begins with Wang De-Wei’s observation that Huang Chunming’s description of female sex workers is based on“male-centered consciousness”and sacrificing women’s dignity. It seeks to identify the different concerns female writers bring to the topic of female sex workers and differentiate their depictions from those of male writers. The focus of the article is Zeng Xin-Yi’s nine novels about female sex workers, and it finds three significant differences between her portrayals and those of male writers. First, Zeng Xin-Yi cares about the subjectivity of female sex workers, describes their ambivalence with sex work, their inner feelings about occupational injury, and the difficulties they face when they decide to leave sex work and return to society. The images and moods of female sex workers are described in a three-dimensional and delicate manner. Second, this article proposes that although the main reason why women became sex workers in the 1970s was to support their families, it was their own choice and not a result of being forced or sold. Based on this, the article describes the commodification of sex that occurred after Taiwan became a capitalist society in the 1970s, and provides reflections on women’s sacrifices for their families. Finally, speaking from the perspective of female consciousness, Zeng Xin-Yi criticized the crossracial male alliance that Taiwan entered into with the US military and Japan’s vacation tourism, and demonstrated an independent national consciousness from the perspective of national allegory. This article also points out that female writers are more concerned with women’s subjective consciousness, which is different from the national fables of male writers. Accordingly, this study finds that writers of different genders depict female sex workers in different ways, and it thereby achieves the goal of dialogue and supplementation.