茅盾的小说创作,一直坚持“为人生”的文学理念,其早期小说中的新女性,身着性感暴露的服装,大胆而热情地展示着她们妖娆的身体。她们在作品中既是满足男性欲望的对象,又承担着作者所赋予的社会责任与义务,进而寄寓了茅盾对中国现代女性复杂的性别想象。 Mao Dun’s novels have always insisted on his literary concept of “being a human being”, the new women in his early novels, and the clothes in sexy exposures, boldly and enthusiastically displaying their enchanting bodies. In their works, they are not only the objects that satisfy the desire of men but also bear the social responsibility and obligation conferred by the authors, which in turn sets Mao Dun’s complicated gender imagination about the modern Chinese women.