图书标签: 女性 Gender 海外中国研究 高彦颐 明清史 DorothyKo 海外中国研究丛书 文化
发表于2024-11-21
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Rejecting popular image and accepted scholarship on the status of women in premodern China, this pathbreaking work argues that literate gentrywomen in seventeenth-century Jiangnan were far from oppressed or silenced. As writers, readers, editors, and teachers, these women created a rich culture and meaningful existence from within the constraints of the male-dominated Confucian system. The author reconstructs the social, emotional, and intellectual worlds of these women from the interstices between ideology, practice, and self-perception. Born out of curiosity about how premodern Chinese women lived, this book proposes a new way to conceptualize China's past. This reconception rests on the premise that by understanding how women lived, we better grasp the dynamics of gender relations and gain a more complete knowledge of the values of Chinese culture, the functioning of Chinese society, and the nature of historical change. The book examines three types of women's communities that developed in this environment: domestic, social, and public. Women from different families, age groups, and social stations were brought together by their shared love of poetry and common concerns as women. Though important at the time, most of these ties proved fragile and transitory because of women's inherently ambivalent position. The author argues that the gender system identified women both by their shared gender, or women-as-same, and by their social station, or women-as-different. This contradiction accorded women freedoms within their own limited spheres, but these spheres were fragmented and often demarcated by the class of male kin. As a result, even the most mobile and articulate of women had noinstitutional means of launching fundamental attacks on the gender system.
Professor Ko’s research interest is the everyday lives of women in China –along with the domestic objects they made by hand–as a significant part of country’s cultural, economic and political development. She works at the intersections of anthropology, history, and women’s studies.
Ko’s recent book, Cinderella Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding, published in 2005, shattered the popular conception of footbinding as a tool to oppress women and demonstrated that it was instead a source of female identity, purpose, pride, and power. It won the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize of the American Historical Association, Recently, she has been turning her attention to the skills of women’s artisans such as embroiderers, stone carvers, and ceramic artists. Her research during spring semester, 2004, as a senior fellow at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center’s Institute for International Research in Nanjing, focused on the importance of ancient art of silk-weaving for a study of the dress-making tradition and domestic work culture in China’s silk industry region. More recently, as a fellow at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge, England, in spring 2007, she researched ancient swordsmith legends for insights into the relations between bodily investments and transformation of matter.
In addition to Cinderella’s Sisters, Ko has written numerous books and publications, including “Between the Boudoir and the Global Market: Shen Shou, Embroidery and Modernity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” in Looking Modern (forthcoming), Every Step a Lotus (2001), and Teachers of the Inner Chambers (1994). She is also co-editor of Women and Confucian Cultures in Pre-modern China, Korea, and Japan.
Ko’s courses include Chinese cultural history, body histories, women and culture in 17th century China, and Confucian cultures.
Ko earned undergraduate and advanced degrees at Stanford University, including the doctorate. She has received a number of fellowships and awards. She was a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (2000-2001), a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2000-2001) and a fellow at the Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University (1999-2000). Before joining the Barnard faculty in 2001, Professor Ko taught at Rutgers University.
Insightful, with respect to humanity.
评分我手上这一本复印的书,是2002年,高老师在封面上写下书名 她的英文名和出版社的名字,在扉页上给我留了一句话。感怀于心,永志不忘。
评分其实还是夹缝中生存…我非常喜欢高老师对Bourdieu理论的运用,嗯再加上他对cultural capital的论述,实在是太适合写明末清初的女画家们了……
评分文笔秀丽,爬梳扎实,大意义略用力过猛。福柯布迪厄传授新文化/社会史,强调权力秩序在人主体互动过程中展开,文化符号在制度结构上凝聚和再生,反对程式制度化引申权力结构;性别史,强调精英阶层女性利用儒家家族和男权秩序空隙,及借助其话语正当化家务和生殖以外的活动空间,利用教化、诗文联结女性知识网络,婉曲表达独立情感渴求,也必须维护女性作为维持儒家教化、养育后代之责任,仕女与精英妻妾在才气美感上竞争,反对五四以降古中国女性集体禁锢、一无所长之图景(但此图景似仅从国家政治述说与部分作品引出,五四以来新文人和妇女解放界更丰富之话语无分析);更广义明清社会经济史,晚明盛清江南社会经济发展,城市化,知识生产和流通商业化,产生读书公众文化,男/女、士族/平民等身份壁垒被穿透,女性拓展空间之努力搭上社会过程便车。
评分我手上这一本复印的书,是2002年,高老师在封面上写下书名 她的英文名和出版社的名字,在扉页上给我留了一句话。感怀于心,永志不忘。
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评分挑战传统的五四妇女史观:传统社会的女性的历史就是压迫史,女性作为男性的附庸,缠足表现尤其突出,被解读为取悦男性而残害女性健康。 作者先从规范上谈儒家对女性的要求,即三从;然后从具体实践中去发现三从是如何被践行的;再就是从女性本身入手,从她们诗文书信中发掘她们...
评分原本想用“这是我今年目前为止读到的最可读的一本书”作为开头,然后意识到我今年目前为止并没有正儿八经地读完过几本书,这话似因样本太少而全无说服力。但转念一想,如果考虑到我今年开读的书大都因浮躁而半途停辍,那么这本难得的在一个相对较短的时间里一气看完的书,或许...
评分海外中国研究,打破刻板印象 《闺塾师——明末清初江南的才女文化》是一本海外学者对中国妇女史的研究著作。作者高彦颐是美国人,纽约哥伦比亚大学的历史系教授,专攻明清社会史及比较妇女史。西方学者的中国史研究,往往与传统视角不同。尽管存在一定文化距离,部分结论有以偏...
评分有时候一个问题就是开启一个崭新世界的钥匙。 读《闺塾师——明末清初江南的才女文化》时,高彦颐的一个发问就令我觉得惊异:“儒家的社会性别体系为何在如此长的时间内运转得这样灵活顺畅?妇女们从这一体系中获得过什么好处?”这一发问是对五四史观的颠覆。因为五四史观...
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