美国华裔作家谭恩美,身处美国南北战争与美国黑人的民权运动时代之中,自身深受美国自由民主主流文化影响。《灶神之妻》这部作品通过描述女主人公温妮的人生轨迹,展示了女性主义意识在当时时代崛起的艰辛历程。本文以女主人公温妮人生三个阶段中不同的女性意识和行动为切入点,深入分析《灶神之妻》所要表达的女性主义思想。通过女性主义视角探析《灶神之妻》展现出的女性主义意识形成过程,以期对现代社会女权思想有积极的影响与推动作用。 American writer Amy Tan, living in the civil rights movement of the American Civil War and African-American civilians, was deeply influenced by the mainstream culture of freedom and democracy in the United States. “Kitchen God’s Wife” depicts the hard journey of feminist consciousness at that time by describing the life trajectory of the heroine Winnie. This article starts with the different female consciousness and action in the three stages of the life of Winnie the heroine, and deeply analyzes the feminist thought to be expressed by Wife of the Kitchen God. From the perspective of feminism, this paper probes into the feminist consciousness formation process demonstrated by Wife of the Kitchen God, with a view to exerting a positive influence on and promoting the feminist thought in modern society.