《臺灣婦人界》是日治時期唯一在臺灣發行的女性雜誌，其創刊宗旨為「協助提升發展臺灣婦人文化」。雜誌中所呈現的女性形象反映了當時臺灣部分女性，特別是中上階級女性的樣貌。本研究以《臺灣婦人界》的廣告為文本，運用法國符號學者羅蘭‧巴特提出的圖像符號學分析觀點，探討雜誌圖像中呈現的女性形象，及其背後所代表的文化意涵。 本研究發現，《臺灣婦人界》中呈現的女性形象與日治時期臺灣女子教育中的「高女文化」相符，這種「高女文化」所體現的「和洋折衷」符號現象，具體而微地代表日治時期臺灣邁向現代化的過程。臺灣的現代化過程，係受到殖民母國影響，掺雜了日本經驗與經過日本篩選的西方經驗。此外，根據文本分析的結果，《臺灣婦人界》有一種女性形象為「賢妻良母」，代表的是日治時期臺灣女性婚後的典範，女性必須透過婚姻與婚後的家庭場域，才能實踐她所扮演的理想角色。《臺灣婦人界》發行後期受到中日戰爭影響，呈現的女性形象與戰前截然不同，此時期圖像反映出戰爭期間，日本殖民政府利用媒體意圖塑造的各種表象，如幸福的皇民化家庭、女性進行的奉仕活動等。 / Taiwan Women's Sphere is the only women's magazine published in Taiwan during the period of Japanese occupation. Its object was to assist in developing women’s culture in Taiwan. Taiwan Women's Sphere can be viewed as an important medium representing images of upper-class females during Japanese Occupation of Taiwan. Using the analytic principles of pictorial semiotics proposed by French semiotician Roland Barth, the present research analyzes advertising and pictorial texts containing female images and provides an in-depth discussion of the cultural and societal factors influencing such representation. Our research results indicate that the female images represented in Taiwan Women's Sphere fit into "the culture of girl’s high schools" during Japanese occupation. "The culture of girl’s high schools" connotes both the influences of Japan and the West, which play significant roles in the modernization process of Taiwan. A modernized Taiwan was not only influenced by Japanese colonizer but also by the western cultural elements selected by Japan. . In addition, another significant female role portrayed by Taiwan Women's Sphere was "a dutiful wife and also a loving mother." Such an image implies that females were “ideal women” only when they were married and practice their dual roles as wife and mother in the familial space... After 1937 when Sino-Japanese War broke out, contents of Taiwan Women's Sphere were censored closely by the colonial governments. A certain number of the pictures printed on this magazine are related to the Kouminka Movement such as the portrayal of the kouminka family and war-supporting women engaging in various activities.

《臺灣婦人界》（1934-1939）為日治時期最具規模的女性雜誌，也是1930年代刊載最大量通俗小說的刊物。本論文以殖民現代性與女性經驗的交織為主軸，提出《臺灣婦人界》小說的後殖民閱讀。日治時期台灣女性最初的現代體驗，奠基於殖民現代性所帶來的教育機會與物質文明，一方面秉持啟蒙開化的信念給予女性前所未有的自由與選擇，另一方面則訴諸文明優劣程度築起一道文化同化的門檻。「世界」指新女性走出家屋展望世界的文本效應。女性透過教養、知識提升成為公領域典範的可能，以及不同族裔、背景的女性基於文明信念而想像出的共同體，是《臺灣婦人界》一再宣揚的普遍價值。「民俗」是與上述普遍性對照之下的差異性，信仰漢人宗教的女性成為奇觀的拼貼素材，也化身被排除的迷信舊慣。這些文化差異性復又受到「帝國」殖民同化計畫的整編與改造，其透過女性之於家庭與社會的角色，以日本現代文明與大和民族的優越位階，對不同出身、階級與族裔的差異主體實行精神統馭。 　　筆者從《臺灣婦人界》觀察到上述三個大方向，並參照史碧娃克（Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak）、霍米巴巴（Homi Bhabha）的後殖民觀點，進一步解析殖民現代性排除與整編的策略如何在小說中一一受到挑戰。被體制重重壓迫的底層女性身影解構了以自由主義理念為根基、中產階級身份為前提的文明女性想像。被現代理性準繩貶抑的民俗迷信拯救了台灣女性的主體分裂危機，證明原生文化始終是殖民現代性無法割除斬斷的一部份。混血的女性身體隱喻著台灣多層歷史與地緣脈絡的軌跡，那難以馴化的混雜性揭發了殖民改造計畫的破綻。本論文探討的包括黃寶桃、西川滿等已受學界所知的作家，以及陳華培、別所夏子等未曾受到討論的台日創作者，期能為這份議題性與份量兼具、卻幾乎未受到注意的史料梳理一個輪廓，揭示《臺灣婦人界》之於日治時期文學研究、女性史研究以及後殖民研究的價值。 / Taiwan Fujinkai (1934-1939) was the most influential women’s magazine in colonial Taiwan, on which women’s experience were closely interweaved with colonial modernity. For women in colonial Taiwan, the first experience of modernization was founded on the modern education and material environment by Japanese power, and thus contained double sides. One was the sense of liberation brought by the belief of enlightenment, another was the awareness of discrimination between the superior and the inferior. “The cosmopolitan” refers to an imagined community where women from all backgrounds can be canonized if they followed the universal route of modernization. Being a contrast of this universality, images of women in “the folklore” was represented as the backwardness eliminated from the modern society. In the civilizing mission of “the empire,” these eliminated cultures were assimilated into the imperial project again, which seek to rule and reform the colonized through the hand of civilized wives and mothers. With Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Homi Bhabha’s postcolonial concepts, this paper examines how Japan’s strategy of elimination and assimilation was challenged in the fictions in Taiwan Fujinkai. The subaltern women in the bottom of social system broke the liberalist imagination of women’s civilizing route. A ghost haunted in Taiwan women’s mind implied that the native folklore can be oppressed but never divisible. The mixed-blood woman’s body disclosed the invalidity of Japan’s attempt to discipline the hybridity of it colony. My discussion includes Huang Pao-tao, Nishikawa Mitsuru and other undiscovered texts. Probing into this important but rarely investigated magazine, I seek to uncover its value for the literature study, women’s study and postcolonial study in the field of Taiwan literature.