晚清西風東漸，有識之士對傳統婚姻提出質疑，倡導「自由結婚」，主張須依 據當事人意願締結婚姻。男女由傳統婚姻中的被動身分，轉而替自己作主，父母之 命與媒灼之言不再是決定婚姻的主因。「自由結婚」以男女感情為基礎，強調須有 雙方意願才能結婚。因此，男女交際往來是「自由結婚」的前提，無論男女是藉由 通信往來或在公開場合見面，都強調女子教育才是達成「自由結婚」的根本條件， 與女學與「自由結婚」於是產生密切關係。傳統婚姻講求夫婦間的責任與義務，「自 由結婚」則強調夫婦感情基礎，而感情的交流則立基於婚前往來、男女具有平等地 位的前提。此外，「自由結婚」雖主張男女雙方意願為導向，但形式上仍不脫父母 主婚，以男女意願為主，父母主婚為輔，父母由傳統婚制中主動地位退居其次，但 在「自由結婚」中仍佔有一席之地。男女作家在倡導「自由結婚」時，似乎有一些 不同的主張與想法，而這些不同的主張與想法，似乎與作家的性別立場有關。為瞭 解性別因素與婚姻觀之問的相關性，本文將以女作家王妙如{女獄花) ( 1904 )與 男作家思綺齋《女子權》 ( 1907) 為例，探討男女作家在小說中，對於「自由結婚」 的不同想法，以及此中因為性別不同，而在小說鋪陳中產生的差異性。

The late Qing Learning from the West, insightful people to question traditional marriage, advocacy of "Free Marriage", advocate is required by the willingness of the parties to enter into marriage. By passive identity of traditional marriage, the men and women turn to decide for themselves, their parents or niatchmaker is no longer the main cause of the marriage decision. "Free Marriage" is based on men and women feelings, stressed the need to have both sides wishes to marry. Therefore, communication between men and women is the premise of "Free Marriage". Both men and women by correspondence or meet in public, have stressed that women's education is to reach the . "Free Marriage". Set up the women learning and "Free Marriage" have a close relationship. Traditional marriage emphasis on the responsibilities and obligations between the couple, "Free Marriage" stressed couples based on feelings, the feelings of the exchange is based on pre-marital contacts with the premise of equal status for men and women. In addition, "Free Marriage" although advocates of both men and women wishes oriented, but the form is still not out of the parents Zhuhun. Men and women will mainly parents Zhuhun supplemented. Parents to take second place by the driving position in the traditional marriage system, but still a place in the "Free Marriage". Men and women writers in the advocate "Free Marriage" seems to have a number ofdifferent proposals and ideas, these different ideas and thoughts, it seems that the gender position of the writer. In order to understand the correlation between gender factors and views on marriage, this article will be female writer Wang Miao, such as "Female Prison Flower" and "Female Rights". In order to understand the correlation between gender factors and views on marriage, this article will be female writer WANG MIAO-JU "Female Prison Flower" and male writer SSU CHI-CHAr "Female Rights" as example. Investigate the male and female writers in the novel, the "Free Marriage" idea, and there is a world gender differences in the novel lay.