In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were imprisoned in the inner quarters, deprived of freedom and dignity, and so physically and morally deformed by footbinding and the tyrannies of patriarchy that they were incapable of productive work. She proposes a concept of gynotechnics, a set of everyday technologies that define women's roles, as a creative new way to explore how societies translate moral and social principles into a web of material forms and bodily practices. Bray examines three different aspects of domestic life in China, tracing their developments from 1000 to 1800 A.D. She begins with the shell of domesticity, the house, focusing on how domestic space embodied hierarchies of gender. She follows the shift in the textile industry from domestic production to commercial production. Despite increasing emphasis on women's reproductive roles, she argues, this cannot be reduced to childbearing. Female hierarchies within the family reinforced the power of wives, whose responsibilities included ritual activities and financial management as well as the education of children.
白馥兰(Francesca Bray)英国剑桥大学社会人类学博士,研究兴趣集中于农业体系、日常技术、社会性别、医疗与身体等方面,并专攻东亚及东南亚地区。曾居住在马来西亚乡村参加稻田种植。现任美国圣巴巴拉加州大学人类学系教授。其主要著作除本书外,尚有李约瑟主编《中国的科学与文明》之第六卷第二分册(农业)(1984)、《稻米经济:亚洲社会的技术与发展》(1994)、《明代中国的技术与社会,1368—1644年》(2000)。本书于1997年出版后,曾于1999年获美国技术史学会所颁发的德克斯特奖(DxterPrize)。
本書反對傳統中國男性壓迫女性的簡單話語,從三方面——空間、工作、生育揭示女性生活的一些深層內容。第一部份介紹了中國房屋的形式和內涵,在儒家禮儀特別是祖先祭祀中的意義,女性在其中的角色,婚禮和婚床、嫁妝箱子的重要性;女性在家內外的活動,女性和孃家的聯繫,女性...
评分简单说一下,这本书繁琐的细节让我头痛,但是它所用的人类学和历史学方法,女性视角和后殖民主义认识论很是厉害。学界评价很高的一本书,不明白为什么大多数人给了三星。 In her cultural study of technology, Bray has two themes. First, she revisits the reproduction of...
评分简单说一下,这本书繁琐的细节让我头痛,但是它所用的人类学和历史学方法,女性视角和后殖民主义认识论很是厉害。学界评价很高的一本书,不明白为什么大多数人给了三星。 In her cultural study of technology, Bray has two themes. First, she revisits the reproduction of...
评分Francesa Bray 1997 Technology and Gender:Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China 必须对照英文版本才可以引用! 导言 p2 我们能试着重新获取技术的实践与产品所传达的信息,去了解社会角色如何通过最强有力的规训形式、身体习惯而使人归化。 p3 这本书所关注的是,按照列...
评分Francesa Bray 1997 Technology and Gender:Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China 必须对照英文版本才可以引用! 导言 p2 我们能试着重新获取技术的实践与产品所传达的信息,去了解社会角色如何通过最强有力的规训形式、身体习惯而使人归化。 p3 这本书所关注的是,按照列...
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评分gynotechnics: 好像只有她用这个term,具体的解释是:a technical system that produces ideas about women and therefore about a gender system and about hierarchical relations in general. 总体而言,从空间、经济、家庭三方面探讨技术与性别的关系,在当时可以算是很新颖了吧。
评分"Using technology to elucidate contradictions between different strands of representation or discourse, and show how women were integrated into what is too often still considered to be a male world."中间的很多观点非常吸引人,比如说将WOMANLY WORK看成女人和STATE之间的直接联系,而随着商业化纺织不再是多数女人的工作之后,她们的REPRODUCTIVE ROLE才被不断渲染。然而因为太长了,中间有些章节有些重复还有些散乱,读完了只能说太耗脑。
评分通篇都是研究綜述。 號稱反對經濟史的經濟解釋,但她自己的論點絲毫無吸引力。女性在家庭經濟地位下降,因為明清國家徵稅不再以紡織物為主?所以女性的勞動沒有經濟效益?
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