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.
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.
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...
评分第一遍看:这都是什么乱七八糟的 第二遍看:好像有点道理 第三遍看:每句话都有特别的涵义 1、很多人纠结,为什么题目是闺塾师,而写的却不是闺塾师?作者已经在文章中阐述了其中的原因: “所有出现在本书中的女性,无论是妻子、女儿或寡妇,都通过她们的作品,互相讲授着各自...
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...
评分总之,封建的、父权的、压迫的“中国传统”是一项非历史的发明,它是三种意识形态和政治传统罕见合流的结果,即“五四”新文化运动、共产主义革命和西方女权主义学说。 受害的“封建”女性形象之所以根深蒂固,在某种程度上是出自一种分析上的混淆,即错误地将标准的规定视为...
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...
經濟角度看明清女性角色多樣化發展
评分导论和开头几章节非常精彩,融合了多方理论和研究成果。叙事和分析都不弱。偶有逻辑瑕疵,但中心论点没有受到影响。后几章有重复拖沓的感觉。考虑到当时的情况,是一本做出突破性成果的好书。
评分某种程度上修正得有点过头,当然因为是研究的上层女性,她们因阶级差别享有一定的自由可以理解,但这极少数的女性只能使我们对古代妇女的认识更多样化,不能改变妇女被压迫这一总体的认识。
评分唉。。其实我的兴趣就在性别史,可为什么我一直在写民族主义的论文。。
评分某种程度上修正得有点过头,当然因为是研究的上层女性,她们因阶级差别享有一定的自由可以理解,但这极少数的女性只能使我们对古代妇女的认识更多样化,不能改变妇女被压迫这一总体的认识。
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