【正文】 Inequality between men and women is the root cause of the right to private ownership and male social repression (Chapman, 1976). In the 19th century, with the development of modern western industrial civilization, society, economy and culture gradually change. In this social context, women in the family request equal status with men increasing, the feminist movement began to grow. For buildingup females’ images, Feminism is a new direction which provides a basis for women to be selfset up. Female images are not limited by their status any more.2. The Social Circumstances of Little Women Louisa May Alcott’s thoughts Louisa May Alcott is an American writer in the 19th century. Alcott’s thoughts are subject to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau’ influences, who are the closest friends of her father. In Boston and Concord, the Alcotts were intimates of the great transcendentalist thinkers and writers of the day (Brook, 1984). Emerson encouraged Louisa to spend hours in his library. On excursions at Walden Pond, she studied botany with Thoreau. The Hawthornes lived next door. The two great thinkers would be the objects of teenage Louisa39。s intense romantic yearnings. Her childhood would be peopled with the most important activists of the abolition movement as well as the era39。s leading intellectuals (Ednah, 1889). Alcott39。s childhood poverty was tempered by family unity and intellectual riches (Brook, 1984). She was taught to cultivate an open mind and a social conscience, and to revere nature as God39。s best work. Louisa39。s first earnings came from endeavors far less glamorous than acting or writing. By her late teens she had worked, for pitiful wages, as a governess, teacher, seamstress, laundress, and livein household servant. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Louisa found a new purpose, reporting to Concord39。s town hall to sew Union uniforms and bandages. As soon as she turned thirty, old enough to enlist as an army nurse, she prevailed upon family friend Dorothy Dix to waive the ban on admitting single women (Brook, 1984).She once campaigned for women39。s suffrage, successfully petitioning doortodoor for the vote in the Concord school mittee election of 1879 (Ednah, 1889). She was politically active and cared deeply about the social and ethical issues of her time. She includes only the subtlest of references to women39。s suffrage, abolition of slavery, the temperance movement, educational reform, and social welfare programs.Therefore, we can find out that Alcott is as the pioneer of the early feminism. She thinks that work was important to women, which is not only the way to provide money for family, but also the presentation of selfrespect and independence. Alcott gives the ideal images to Mrs. March and the March sisters in Little Women, and creates unusual character for nineteenthcentury didactic fiction. Alcott’s feminist sympathies are expressed through the character of Jo March in Little Women. Background of Little WomenIn 1868, Alcott used her memories of childhood and stories about sisters and herself as a base for her novel Little Women. There is the same social circumstance between the time of the story and the time the novel was written. At the time when Alcott posed the novel, women’s status in society was slowly increasing. As with any change in social norms, however, progress toward gender equality was made slowly. Under the influences of the male dominated society, the traditional belief was that women were inferior to men not only in physical part but also in psychological aspect. They were considered lacking in consciousness of leading their own lives. In addition to this, in an era when marriage was the only sanctioned framework for the fulfillment of romantic love (Ednah, 1889), as a wife woman could have no economic or legal identity and motherhood was inpatible with earning a living. Little Women is a 19th century novel, it reflects the time when the first feminism movements took place in America. The society built by the Puritans was stern and repressive, with no individualism for Women. For women, they must turn to be the socalled good women and met the need of the society and take care of their reputation. At that period, women were just starting to notice how they can gain their deserved rights, equalities and freedom. They started to do some simple fighting for their rights. The story begins during the American Civil War in the eighteen sixties with the development of modern western industrial civilization, society, economy and culture gradually change. When many males in American took part in the army and fought for this war, and then females took on much of the burden of families and earned for their living. In this special social circumstance, females in Little Women attempt to break free from these constraints and walk the way to naturalize their individuality.3. Female images on different roles in Little Women Little