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教廷報紙：解放女性　洗衣機扮演要角
中國時報2009-03-09 新聞速報 【法新社】
http://news.chinatimes.com/2007Cti/2007Cti-Rtn/2007Cti-Rtn-Content/0,4526,110104+112009030900031,00.html

教廷報紙「羅馬觀察報」（L'Osservatore Romano）今天在一篇慶祝國際婦女節的評論中表示，在解放婦女方面，洗衣機所扮演的角色大於避孕藥。

這篇文章的標題是：「洗衣機與女性的解放：放洗衣粉、蓋上蓋子然後放輕鬆」。

文章問道：「在20世紀，對於西方女性的解放，何者貢獻最大？」

文章接著說：「這還在爭論之中。有些人說是避孕藥，有些人說是墮胎自由化，或說女性能夠外出工作。還有些人更認為是洗衣機。」

最早期的陽春洗衣機出現於18世紀。這篇文章對洗衣機的長篇禮讚引述已故美國女性主義者貝蒂？佛里登（Betty Friedan）的說法，強調洗衣機『出眾的神秘力量，讓人能夠『從一週換一次床單變成換兩次』」。（譯者：蔡和穎）

教廷說：解放女性的是洗衣機 不是避孕藥
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http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/090310/1/1fsq9.html羅馬天主教廷說，真正解放了女性的是洗衣機，並不是某些女性宣稱的避孕藥或是工作權。

為了慶祝婦女節，教廷機關報「羅馬觀察報」週末刊登了一篇專文，題目是「洗衣機與婦女解放」，副標是「倒洗衣粉，蓋上蓋，休息去嘍」。

文章一開始用了一個設問的修辭：一婦女問「二十世紀對西方婦女解放貢獻最大的是什麼？」。有人答「有人說是墮胎權，有人說是避孕藥，有人說是到外面工作的權利。」有些肯思考的婦女給的答案則是「洗衣機」。

這篇文章接著介紹了洗衣機的歷史。據說，洗衣機的原型是一七六七年，一個德國人設計的。經過兩百多年的演變，洗衣機進入家庭，減輕了主婦的負擔，讓婦女可以有多餘的時間，可以做自己喜歡做的事！


教廷說洗衣機帶來女權 ◎ 魏國金
[自由時報2009-03-10]
http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2009/new/mar/11/today-int9.htm

The washing machine has had a greater liberating role for women than the pill, the official Vatican daily said in an International Women’s Day commentary.

梵蒂岡官方報紙在一篇國際婦女節的評論指出，洗衣機比避孕藥扮演更大的婦女解放角色。

"The washing machine and the emancipation of women： put in the powder, close the lid and relax," said the headline on the article in Osservatore Romano.

「洗衣機與婦女的解放︰放進洗衣粉，關上蓋子，然後放輕鬆」，羅馬觀察家報該篇文章的標題寫道。

"In the 20th century, what contributed most to the emancipation of western women?" questioned the article. "The debate is still open. Some say it was the pill, others the liberalisation of abortion, or being able to work outside the home. Others go even further： the washing machine," it added.

「在20世紀，什麼對西方婦女的解放貢獻最卓著？」該文提問。「這項爭議仍懸而未決，有些人說是避孕藥，另有人說是墮胎的自由化或能走出家庭工作，其他人甚至說是洗衣機。」文章補充說。

The long eulogy to the washing machine -- for which the first rudimentary models appeared in the 18th century -- highlighted "the sublime mystique to being able to ’change the sheets on the beds twice a week instead of once’," quoting the words of late American feminist Betty Friedan.

對洗衣機的長篇褒揚—該機器最初模型出現在18世紀—凸顯出「『能夠每週換兩次而非一次床單的』極致秘訣」，文章引述已故美國女性主義者貝蒂．傅瑞丹的說法。

While the machines were at first unreliable, technology has developed so quickly that now there is "the image of the super woman, smiling, made-up and radiant among the appliances of her house," wrote Osservatore.

雖然洗衣機一開始性能不可靠，然而科技發展如此迅速，以致現在存在「超級婦女的形象；這個婦女露出微笑、化好妝，同時容光煥發地周旋在家裡的電氣用品之間。」觀察家報寫道。

新聞辭典

emancipation︰名詞，解放。比如︰Emancipation Proclamation（解放宣言；美國總統林肯於1862年頒布的解放奴隸法令。）

eulogy︰名詞，頌詞、悼詞、讚美。例句︰The Prime Minister pronounced a eulogy upon the firefighting heroes.（總理向打火英雄致上頌詞。）

rudimentary︰形容詞，基本的、初步的、早期的。例句︰Her grasp of rudimentary English allowed her at least to do the shopping.（她對基礎英文的掌握，讓她至少可以購物。）


Washing machine 'did more to liberate women than the Pill' By Nick Squires in Rome

It may send feminists into a spin but the Vatican's official newspaper has pronounced the washing machine more important for the liberation of women than the contraceptive Pill.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/4959509/Washing-machine-did-more-to-liberate-women-than-the-Pill.html

In a long editorial marking International Women's Day, L'Osservatore Romano, the mouthpiece of the Roman Catholic Church, said washing machines had freed generations of women from the drudgery of housework.

"The washing machine and the emancipation of women: put in the powder, close the lid and relax," said the broadsheet's headline, above a black and white picture of two women in the 1950s admiring a front-loading machine.

"In the 20th century, what contributed most to the emancipation of western women?" asked the editorial.

"The debate is still open. Some say it was the pill, others the liberalisation of abortion, or being able to work outside the home. Others go even further: the washing machine." The first rudimentary washing machines appeared as far back as 1767, noted the article, with the first electrical models being produced at the beginning of the 20th century.

The eulogy to a domestic convenience which most women in developed countries now take for granted quoted the words of the late American feminist, Betty Friedan, who in 1963 described "the sublime mystique to being able to change the bed sheets twice a week instead of once".

While early models were expensive and unreliable, technology had improved to the point that there is now "the image of the super woman, smiling, made-up and radiant among the appliances of her house," wrote the Vatican newspaper.

The article provoked an angry response from some commentators and politicians.

"Instead of entering into an abstract debate on gender, it would be better if L'Osservatore Romano discussed reality, such as the fear in which many women still live when they are in the streets and between the walls of their own homes," Paola Concia, and MP from the opposition Democratic Party, told La Stampa newspaper.