关键词: 性别, 界限, 母亲, 神话, 解构

Abstract: In The Passion of New Eve, Angela Carter deconstructs maternal myth through building a new mother image. Different from traditional mother image, “Mother” in Carters novel appears to be fantastic and monstrous, which is a subversion towards traditional and fixed female image. She thinks that maternal myth also represses women, just like paternal myth. Feminism usually takes motherhood as the source of female power, which is harmful for women to get away from patriarchal shackles. By blurring gender boundary and fabricating a new mother image, Carter attempts to deconstruct matriarchal myth, in an effort to remove fetters for women.

Key words: gender, boundary, mother, myth, deconstruction