Female Body Discourse in Tipping the Velvet

摘要

Being known as the lesbian-themed novel,Tipping the Velvet has always been analyzed with queer theory and Judith But?ler’s sexual performance.Female body discourse is a new perspective to analyze it with the combination of the text analysis and feminine writing put forward by Helene Cixous.Narrating the female body in a novel is a way to deconstruct the patriarchal society and to awaken women to fight against it.It is still of significance in 21st society where gender inequality and discrimination exist everywhere.