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。
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.
缠足在现代化改革者面前,正如书中提到一样,束缚了改革脚步的陋习被批判,缠足凝结了传统中国的种种偏差和不足:压迫妇女、固步自封、蛮横专制、漠视人权等。缠足即落后。出于好奇,买了这本书,随着这几天翻开书,慢慢看进去,书页翻开另一世界,完全陌生、令人好奇,...
评分上世纪80年代,“中国文化热”方兴未艾,有关缠足的论著大批量出现,但大多纠缠于以现代医学、功能观、及女性主义去盖棺论定,“五四妇女史观”的旧调依然清晰辨别,诸如“缠了足,便是废物中的废物”,易招“外人野蛮之讥”等。这一认知范式流布之广之深,就连汉学权威费正清...
评分之前看完写了这样一段短评: 令人手不释卷的那种好看,尤其翻译也好,不过第四、五章看得我很晕。作者尤其敏感的是近现代中国的男性精英在落后的焦虑之下,使用民族-国家和种族进化的话语重新规训和打压女性。她认为在缠足史中女性并非是全然被动的受害者,而是仍然具有一定的...
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...
评分缠足在现代化改革者面前,正如书中提到一样,束缚了改革脚步的陋习被批判,缠足凝结了传统中国的种种偏差和不足:压迫妇女、固步自封、蛮横专制、漠视人权等。缠足即落后。出于好奇,买了这本书,随着这几天翻开书,慢慢看进去,书页翻开另一世界,完全陌生、令人好奇,...
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