Abstract: For a long time,feminism has not got rid of the controversy between essentialism and anti-essentialism,and the construction of female subject has not been given enough attention.By examining the awareness and transition of female consciousness in the context of modernity,its positive role in constructing and developing female subject is affirmed;by examining the paradoxical expression of female experience in symbolic order and separation of female subject,the necessity of constructing female subject is affirmed;and by revealing the complexity of female subject in feminism discourse practice,such as women’s writing,the importance of female subject is emphasized.In the context of modernity,if women want to gain positive identity,they have to gain the qualification to become subject at first,then they may enter the representation system around Phallocentrism,and after that they can construct female subject in the interaction with other men.

Key words: modernity, female subjectivity, identity, Phallocentrism, symbolic order