Feminist Geography and Gender Relationships in a Consumption Space: The Case of Century Ginwa Shopping Center
Received date: 2020-07-08
Revised date: 2020-08-13
Online published: 2020-10-10
Recent research on feminist geography has focused on the human body's micro-geography, identity, and symbolic space. This study primarily concerns the logic of female behavior in small-scale consumption spaces, interpreting such a space's cultural significance and social construction from a gender perspective, analyzing its symbolic significance to feminism, and exploring the power and control that result from such behavior. This study focuses on the praxis and logic of women's lives from a feminist perspective. Starting from a broad perspective of group consumption, including women's spatial perception and cultural experience, it conducts an empirical investigation into the typical attributes of this consumption space and the attributes of space, gender, and power in relationships determined by gender factors. In conclusion, the characteristics of a gender-constructed model of human-earth interaction are summarized. The study helps make good the deficiency of empirical research on small-scale consumption spaces and deepens the research on identity representation and female behavior's cultural connotations in spatial practice. The construction of the consumption space is not only the result of a general social reproduction, but is also the product of gender reproduction. Research on the consumption space from a gender perspective could generate ideas and choices for constructing and reshaping a new public space in the current urban renewal environment. Simultaneously, it is beneficial to women's social relationship status and society's harmonious development. The research results suggest that a gender-aware consumer space could provide a micro-ecosystem for women to participate in an urban setting and call to mind feminist awakening and the practice of women's rights. However, in reality, socially and culturally, women are still disciplined and controlled by males. The behavior of modern women in the consumption space follows the traditional course of role orientation. Women's activities are mainly concentrated in a consumption-driven domestic environment. Their involvement in public space does not significantly change their gender roles or the gender division of labor and their domestic responsibilities. Typical observable discriminatory gender relationships and status are constructed and reproduced in the consumption space, actively confining women to inequality. Therefore, space and gender represent an inseparable dichotomy, and consumption spaces re-enact these unequal gender power relations, reflecting the dominant and controlling relationship between men and women in geographical space.
Lu Liang . Feminist Geography and Gender Relationships in a Consumption Space: The Case of Century Ginwa Shopping Center[J]. Tropical Geography, 2020 , 40(5) : 786 -794 . DOI: 10.13284/j.cnki.rddl.003271
表1 西安世纪金花各分店分布列表Table 1 Distribution characteristics of Century Ginwa in Xi'an |
分店名称 | 区位 | 总建面积/万m2 | 市场定位 | 开业时间 | 特征 |
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钟楼店 | 城市中心 钟鼓楼之间 | 5.7 | 高端,尊贵、高雅、时尚 | 1998 | 城市中心,钟鼓楼商圈,第一家店,商品类型最多、最全:60余世界品牌、15万余种商品 |
南大街店 | 南大街中段 | 1.5 | 中高端,年青、时尚 | 2008 | 城市中心,钟鼓楼商圈 |
高新店 | 高新路与科技路 交汇处 | 3 | 高端,国际化、时尚、高品位 | 2003 | 城市新区高新区核心,高新商圈 |
赛高店 | 迎宾大道中段 | 2.6 | 中高端,时尚生活体验 | 2009 | 北郊经济开发区中心,北郊经开区商圈核心地位 |
表2 西安世纪金花购物中心各商业业态性别比重Table 2 The gender proportion of commercial form in Century Ginwa |
业态类型 | 性别 | 占比/% | 业态类型 | 性别 | 占比/% | ||
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服 饰 | 消费 主体 | 男 | 22 | 餐 饮 | 消费 主体 | 男 | 41 |
女 | 78 | 女 | 59 | ||||
服务 人员 | 男 | 4 | 服务 人员 | 男 | 28 | ||
女 | 96 | 女 | 72 | ||||
化 妆 品 | 消费 主体 | 男 | 11 | 超 市 | 消费 主体 | 男 | 46 |
女 | 89 | 女 | 54 | ||||
服务 人员 | 男 | 3 | 服务 人员 | 男 | 0 | ||
女 | 97 | 女 | 100 | ||||
手 表 饰 品 | 消费 主体 | 男 | 41 | 皮 具 眼 镜 | 消费 主体 | 男 | 48 |
女 | 59 | 女 | 52 | ||||
服务 人员 | 男 | 91 | 服务 人员 | 男 | 29 | ||
女 | 8 | 女 | 71 | ||||
家 居 | 消费 主体 | 男 | 0 | 电 子 产 品 | 消费 主体 | 男 | 59 |
女 | 100 | 女 | 41 | ||||
服务 人员 | 男 | 0 | 服务 人员 | 男 | 48 | ||
女 | 100 | 女 | 52 |
“这里环境优雅,品牌挺多的,在这里挺舒服的,我喜欢的东西我就买。”——受访女性E,43岁,2019年10月
“来商场买东西基本都是给孩子和家里买,自己也顾不上自己了……为了家庭和孩子都是应该的。” ——受访女性B,35岁,2019年11月
“这里衣服挺贵的,样子又多,我都选不定哪一件。......我老公眼光挺好的,选的样子大方,他来就好了。”——受访女性H,46岁,2019年10月
“会员日的时候我花了3万多元,买的衣服回去就塞到了柜子里,到现在也没打开。”——受访女性S,39岁,2019年10月
“有会员一年消费达50万,商场会回赠她一个Ipad。” ——受访服务员C,28岁,2019年9月
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