清朝以来,地方志、文人笔记、学者研究、媒体报道等来自不同领域的陈述,共同建构了自梳女的知识与想象。用福柯的话语分析的方法将有助于梳理自梳女话语形成的脉络及其动因。清朝与民国期间,主导的话语是把自梳看作必须革除的陋习,其立场是要维护社会稳定和婚姻的正统观念;建国后,自梳女被看作是最早觉醒和勇于反抗的女性,是产业工人,这种评价是与新中国所倡导的革命精神和马克思主义妇女观吻合的;随着自梳女日渐老去,她们被看作是神秘而落后的群体,自梳女被他者化,被看作是被动、不自觉和不理智的。 Since the Qing Dynasty, local history, scholar notes, scholarly research, media reports and other statements from different fields together to build a self-combing female knowledge and imagination. The method of using Foucault’s discourse analysis will help to sort out the context and motivation of the formation of self-combing female discourse. During the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the dominant discourse regarded self-combing as a bad habit that must be eradicated. Its position was to maintain the orthodox concept of social stability and marriage. After the founding of the People’s Republic, women were regarded as the earliest awakening and courageous women, Is an industrial worker, and this assessment is in line with the revolutionary spirit advocated by New China and the Marxist outlook on women. With the growing popularity of self-grooming women, they are regarded as mysterious and outdated groups, Is seen as passive, unconscious and irrational.