贺萧(Gail B. Hershatter),女,美国斯坦福大学获博士学位,现任美国加利福尼亚大学圣克鲁斯校区历史系教授、文化研究中心主任。她长期从事文化史、劳工史、妇女史、性史和女性主义理论的研究。她的著作丰富,有《天津工人:1900-1949》、与霍尼格合著的《美国女学者眼中的中国女性》,与吉尔马丁等合编的《中国的产生:妇女、文化和国家》(哈佛大学出版社,1994年),与霍尼格等合编的《重新勘测中国》(斯坦福大学出版社,1996年),与霍尼格等合编的《中国妇女研究指南》(加州伯克利大学东亚研究所,1999年)等书。现正在研究中国西北农村的妇女问题,主题也是历史、记忆与社会性别身份问题。
This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawn mostly from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. Yet they were central figures in Shanghai urban life, entering the historical record whenever others wanted to appreciate, castigate, count, regulate, cure, pathologize, warn about, rescue, eliminate, or deploy them as a symbol in a larger social panorama. Over the past century, prostitution has been understood in many ways: as a source of urbanized pleasures, a profession full of unscrupulous and greedy schemers, a changing site of work for women, a source of moral danger and physical disease, a marker of national decay, and a sign of modernity. For the Communist leadership of the 1950s, the elimination of prostitution symbolized China's emergence as a strong, healthy, and modern nation. In the past decade, as prostitution once again has become a recognized feature of Chinese society, it has been incorporated into a larger public discussion about what kind of modernity China should seek and what kind of sex and gender arrangements should characterize that modernity. Prostitutes, like every other non-elite group, did not record their own lives. How can sources generated by intense public argument about the 'larger' meanings of prostitution be read for clues to those lives? Hershatter makes use of a broad range of materials: guidebooks to the pleasure quarters, collections of anecdotes about high-class courtesans, tabloid gossip columns, municipal regulations prohibiting street soliciting, police interrogations of streetwalkers and those accused of trafficking in women, newspaper reports on court cases involving both courtesans and streetwalkers, polemics by Chinese and foreign reformers, learned articles by Chinese scholars commenting on the world history of prostitution and analyzing its local causes, surveys by doctors and social workers on sexually transmitted disease in various Shanghai populations, relief agency records, fictionalized accounts of the scams and sufferings of prostitutes, memoirs by former courtesan house patrons, and interviews with former officials and reformers. Although a courtesan may never set pen to paper, we can infer a great deal about her strategizing and working of the system through the vast cautionary literature that tells her customers how not to be defrauded by her. Newspaper accounts of the arrests and brief court testimonies of Shanghai streetwalkers let us glimpse the way that prostitutes positioned themselves to get the most they could from the legal system. Without recourse to direct speech, Hershatter argues, these women have nevertheless left an audible trace. Central to this study is the investigation of how things are known and later remembered, and how, later still, they are simultaneously apprehended and reinvented by the historian.
李银河:评《危险的愉悦》 书评人: 李多 评《危险的愉悦》 文:李银河 出处:社会学人类学中国网 贺萧Gail B. Hershatter的《危险的愉悦》一书是西方女性主义者研究中国妇女问题的典范之作。该书在出版当年获得美国历史学会的研究著作奖项,充分证明了它在历史学...
评分作者真的是用开阔的思路来做的研究,性问题绝不是一个可以限定一个范围内说的故事,性是既是文化的载体,又是文化本身,尤其是官方语汇以外的“真实世界”。 两性是在博弈中取得平衡,女性绝不象宣传得那么受压迫。从本质上说,男性是无法压倒、压迫女性的,因为男性必须要通过...
评分这本书可以和Christian Henriot, Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849-1949, (French edition 1997, English edition 2001) 一起读。后者更偏向社会学,用了很多档案和数据。 Gail Hershatter and Christian Henriot both focused their women’s...
评分关于民族国家与女性身体的论述所在有多,从今天看,本书的大体观点并无甚新鲜之处。我相信绝大多数人和我一样,只为了“娼妓”二字拿起此书。 娼妓,是一个复杂的意象。 从身边想起,是在街旁游荡的夜莺,是倚门张望的发廊妹……她们代表了城市夜里的另一面,我...
评分今天真是那什么夜色溶溶月,花间啥来着? 刚打完花溅月,喝完壶见底,然后开始写花姑娘……那叫一个燕燕轻盈,莺莺娇软。 前脚还是,楚腰纤细掌中轻,转身就是淮南皓月冷千山,冥冥归去无人管啊。 人家残月出门时,美人和泪辞。 我等骆驼三更挑灯,虎妞添...
牛逼的另一个例子,就用报纸小说做文本分析,理想的工作就是这样啊。
评分Solid but also much theoretically informed. 新文化史的典范,全程注意反思自己作为historian的局限性和文字材料的真实性。围绕娼妓业的各种问题都有讨论并与宏大主题灵活结合。12章结尾对于modernity这一概念在共和国的reconfiguration提出很有启发的论述。
评分久闻大名终于读到了~~ to what extent the subaltern speak 也是近现代研究的中心议题了吧 (从Spivak的开创性文章后 我是没在methodology上读到可以相比的了); 本书从prostitution上来说,对subaltern study的诠释是非常全面的; 另外就是社会对于个体以及个体表现的重构解释作用:(此处借用鲁迅的小杂感) 社会诠释将白胳膊和性交联系了起来,并不是白胳膊确实与性交有什么实质性关系; 是不是与现在的很多社会话题有关。 意义和诠释都是人这个群体赋予的,再用来束缚人个体; 想起另一篇我很喜欢的文章,看到白胳膊就想到性交:1 性交有什么错吗 2 这就是性压抑的结果~
评分Some comments here are extremely narrow-minded and judgemental. It's not your definition of history that only counts as history. If you prefer Henriot's book, go comment under his. Spreading some unreliable rumor here makes you look ridiculous.
评分5 years ago, I prefered this book to CH's...I heard that some historians in Stanford strongly discredited GH's historical approach, and thus denied to give her the faculty position in Stanford..it makes me rethink the importance of "sources" for "history" .
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