在民族文化商品化的背景下,苗族女性逐漸參與到苗族刺繡的商品生產和銷售中。通過傳統身體規訓而習得的刺繡技藝,恰恰成為女性施展能動性的媒介。她們藉此改變家戶內的性別分工,擴展女性的自主空間,并重塑傳統的性別角色規范。在此過程中,苗族女性并非僅僅聚焦于族群內的性別權利轉移,而是同時通過彰顯其族群身份和刺繡技藝,建立起自己在苗繡生產與商品化中不可替代的主體性,挑戰了在市場經濟中苗族被邊緣化和客體化的狀況,展現了她們為爭取文化自主權和話語權所作的努力。

Miao women have been increasingly participating in the commodification of Miao embroidery through producing and selling embroidery items.Traditionally,learning embroidery as a bodily discipline shaped women’s behavior and identity.At present,by means of their unique embroidery skills,Miao women have reconfigured the domestic division of labor,the spatiality of women’s lives,and the gender roles in traditional society.However,more than focusing on the shifts of gender power inside the community,Miao women have forged new subjectivities in the marketing of Miao embroidery through the presentation of their ethnic identity and embroidery skills.In this sense,they have struggled to realize their cultural autonomy and challenged the marginalization and objectification of Miao ethnic group in the market economy.