白馥蘭(Francesca Bray)英國劍橋大學社會人類學博士,研究興趣集中於農業體係、日常技術、社會性彆、醫療與身體等方麵,並專攻東亞及東南亞地區。曾居住在馬來西亞鄉村參加稻田種植。現任美國聖巴巴拉加州大學人類學係教授。其主要著作除本書外,尚有李約瑟主編《中國的科學與文明》之第六捲第二分冊(農業)(1984)、《稻米經濟:亞洲社會的技術與發展》(1994)、《明代中國的技術與社會,1368—1644年》(2000)。本書於1997年齣版後,曾於1999年獲美國技術史學會所頒發的德剋斯特奬(DxterPrize)。
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.
發表於2025-01-31
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第四章 權力的結構——婦女工作的規範意義 第五章 經濟增長與勞動分工的變化 第六章 婦女的工作與地位 p186 “男耕女織”的規範至少在勞動層麵上錶達齣夫妻之間的分工是互補性的,而非從屬性的關係。然而,宋代至清代,紡織業所發生的復雜變化使婦女大體上淪為織工。她們的技術...
評分簡單說一下,這本書繁瑣的細節讓我頭痛,但是它所用的人類學和曆史學方法,女性視角和後殖民主義認識論很是厲害。學界評價很高的一本書,不明白為什麼大多數人給瞭三星。 In her cultural study of technology, Bray has two themes. First, she revisits the reproduction of...
評分Francesa Bray 1997 Technology and Gender:Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China 必須對照英文版本纔可以引用! 導言 p2 我們能試著重新獲取技術的實踐與産品所傳達的信息,去瞭解社會角色如何通過最強有力的規訓形式、身體習慣而使人歸化。 p3 這本書所關注的是,按照列...
評分簡單說一下,這本書繁瑣的細節讓我頭痛,但是它所用的人類學和曆史學方法,女性視角和後殖民主義認識論很是厲害。學界評價很高的一本書,不明白為什麼大多數人給瞭三星。 In her cultural study of technology, Bray has two themes. First, she revisits the reproduction of...
評分本書反對傳統中國男性壓迫女性的簡單話語,從三方麵——空間、工作、生育揭示女性生活的一些深層內容。第一部份介紹瞭中國房屋的形式和內涵,在儒傢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;女性在傢內外的活動,女性和孃傢的聯繫,女性...
圖書標籤: 人類學 女性 gender 性彆 技術史 曆史 空間 海外中國研究
"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."中間的很多觀點非常吸引人,比如說將WOMANLY WORK看成女人和STATE之間的直接聯係,而隨著商業化紡織不再是多數女人的工作之後,她們的REPRODUCTIVE ROLE纔被不斷渲染。然而因為太長瞭,中間有些章節有些重復還有些散亂,讀完瞭隻能說太耗腦。
評分Technology as system, culture, and communication (!). Blew my mind.
評分Technology as system, culture, and communication (!). Blew my mind.
評分gynotechnics: 好像隻有她用這個term,具體的解釋是:a technical system that produces ideas about women and therefore about a gender system and about hierarchical relations in general. 總體而言,從空間、經濟、傢庭三方麵探討技術與性彆的關係,在當時可以算是很新穎瞭吧。
評分白馥蘭老師經典作品,終於在上課的時候開給學生看瞭
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