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发表于2025-03-12
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The history of footbinding is full of contradictions and unexpected turns. The practice originated in the dance culture of China's medieval court and spread to gentry families, brothels, maid's quarters, and peasant households. Conventional views of footbinding as patriarchal oppression often neglect its complex history and the incentives of the women involved. This revisionist history, elegantly written and meticulously researched, presents a fascinating new picture of the practice from its beginnings in the tenth century to its demise in the twentieth century. Neither condemning nor defending foot-binding, Dorothy Ko debunks many myths and misconceptions about its origins, development, and eventual end, exploring in the process the entanglements of male power and female desires during the practice's thousand-year history. "Cinderella's Sisters" argues that rather than stemming from sexual perversion, men's desire for bound feet was connected to larger concerns such as cultural nostalgia, regional rivalries, and claims of male privilege. Nor were women hapless victims, the author contends. Ko describes how women - those who could afford it - bound their own and their daughters' feet to signal their high status and self-respect. Femininity, like the binding of feet, was associated with bodily labor and domestic work, and properly bound feet and beautifully made shoes both required exquisite skills and technical knowledge passed from generation to generation. Throughout her narrative, Ko deftly wields methods of social history, literary criticism, material culture studies, and the history of the body and fashion to illustrate how a practice that began as embodied lyricism - as a way to live as the poets imagined - ended up being an exercise in excess and folly.
高彦颐,(Dorothy Ko) 美国斯坦福大学国际关系学学士、东亚历史系博士,专攻明清社会史及比较妇女史。曾任教加州大学圣地亚哥分校及新泽西州立罗格斯大学历史及妇女研究系,现为纽约哥伦比亚大学巴纳德分校历史系教授。近作有《步步生莲:绣鞋与缠足文物》(Every Step a Lotus:Shoes for BoundFeet)及《闺塾师:明末清初江南的才女文化》(TeaeheFS of the Inner Chambers:Women andCulture in Seventeenth—Century China)等书。
One of the most fascinating works on Chinese gender issues. 即使缠足的背景下女性的"选择"是rearragement of desires,作者做到了她想要阐述的“ongoing conflicts”. Definitely a masterpiece. 整本书是我revisionist historiography的启蒙。
评分之前读的补标,很喜欢这本书。看了其他一些书评说作者过度否定反对缠足的正面意义,但是我觉得作者并没有这样做。因为反对缠足、鼓励放足这样的运动已经得到了大部分史学家的关注和肯定,而作者仅仅是想去填补这其中对于缠足甚至主动缠足的女性的探讨和研究。发展缠足文化的是男性,发起女性解放运动的仍然是男性,而故事里的女性在历史里被遮蔽了。难道我们不该去听听故事里女性的声音吗(就算是一味妥协)?作者的书无疑为缠足和放足史增添了许多层次和复杂性
评分the length of my feet is only 22cm.............. it is the biggest feet size of women who had a footbinding from thirdteenth to fifteenth centuries. i could get a good match, if i was born at that time!
评分Female agency in footbinding
评分牛B之处在于全世界的gender studies people都会读她,无论是研究伊斯兰还是印度。
曾祖母是小脚女人。据父亲说身量矮小,白净,柔顺。是大家闺秀的样子。 因此早在习学“缠足之害”这些主流话语以前,我便已形成对缠足的复杂认知:缠足事关承担家道中落之痛的曾祖父,事关吸食鸦片养四房姨太太的曾曾祖父,事关那些似是而非的家族兴衰史。缠足于我不...
评分小時候讀《唐祝文周》四傑傳,於一個段落印象頗深。話說唐伯虎為求親近秋香,不惜賣身至相府為僮,新到的書僮首次叩見主母,主母擺開的排場裡就有愛婢秋香。堂堂解元給夫人下跪,他倒也自得其樂:『我不能抬頭飽看秋香的面,何妨低頭細細賞鑒秋香的腳。』作者程瞻廬大抵嫌這描...
评分这本书的英文题目意为“辛德瑞拉的姐妹们”,辛德瑞拉就是格林童话中的灰姑娘。原著中灰姑娘的故事要比现在通行的儿童版本“虐”得多,简直就是西方版的“削足适履”。 作者为什么要研究这个课题?这是我看到这本书时的第一反应,缠足不过是丑陋畸形的审美情趣,而且已经永远地...
评分小時候讀《唐祝文周》四傑傳,於一個段落印象頗深。話說唐伯虎為求親近秋香,不惜賣身至相府為僮,新到的書僮首次叩見主母,主母擺開的排場裡就有愛婢秋香。堂堂解元給夫人下跪,他倒也自得其樂:『我不能抬頭飽看秋香的面,何妨低頭細細賞鑒秋香的腳。』作者程瞻廬大抵嫌這描...
Cinderella's Sisters pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025