监狱是《半身》中的重要意象。梅尔监狱利用全景敞视结构监视女囚,对她们进行规训与惩罚。而维多利亚社会就是一个隐形监狱,玛格丽特因违背社会价值标准也受到监视。监视是“监狱”实施规训权力的主要形式,因此,身陷“监狱”的女性通过阻碍监视反抗规训权力,其中社会底层的女同性恋者的“反凝视”更是挑战了维多利亚社会的父权、阶级等级制度和异性恋霸权,使得小说具有反“逻各斯中心主义”的解构主义色彩,体现其现代性。 Prisons are important images of “half body.” Meyer Prison uses a panoptic structure to monitor women prisoners and discipline and punish them. Victoria is an invisible prison and Marguerite is also monitored for violating social standards of value. Surveillance is the primary form of “prison” enforcing the power of discipline, and therefore, women trapped in “prisons” are more likely to be “anti-gaze” of lesbians at the bottom of society by hindering the surveillance of defensive discipline Challenged the patriarchal, class hierarchy and heterosexual hegemony of Victorian society, making the novel deconstructionist with “Logocentrism” and reflecting its modernity.