Teachers of the Inner Chambers

Professor Ko’s research interest is the everyday lives of women in China –along with the domestic objects they made by hand–as a significant part of country’s cultural, economic and political development. She works at the intersections of anthropology, history, and women’s studies.Ko’s recent book, Cinderella Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding, published in 2005, shattered the popular conception of footbinding as a tool to oppress women and demonstrated that it was instead a source of female identity, purpose, pride, and power. It won the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize of the American Historical Association, Recently, she has been turning her attention to the skills of women’s artisans such as embroiderers, stone carvers, and ceramic artists. Her research during spring semester, 2004, as a senior fellow at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center’s Institute for International Research in Nanjing, focused on the importance of ancient art of silk-weaving for a study of the dress-making tradition and domestic work culture in China’s silk industry region. More recently, as a fellow at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge, England, in spring 2007, she researched ancient swordsmith legends for insights into the relations between bodily investments and transformation of matter.In addition to Cinderella’s Sisters, Ko has written numerous books and publications, including “Between the Boudoir and the Global Market: Shen Shou, Embroidery and Modernity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” in Looking Modern (forthcoming), Every Step a Lotus (2001), and Teachers of the Inner Chambers (1994). She is also co-editor of Women and Confucian Cultures in Pre-modern China, Korea, and Japan.Ko’s courses include Chinese cultural history, body histories, women and culture in 17th century China, and Confucian cultures.Ko earned undergraduate and advanced degrees at Stanford University, including the doctorate. She has received a number of fellowships and awards. She was a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (2000-2001), a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2000-2001) and a fellow at the Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University (1999-2000). Before joining the Barnard faculty in 2001, Professor Ko taught at Rutgers University.

出版者:Stanford University Press

作者:Dorothy Ko

页数:416

出版时间:1995-1-1

价格:USD 30.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780804723596

图书标签:女性Gender海外中国研究高彦颐明清史DorothyKo海外中国研究丛书文化

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Rejecting popular image and accepted scholarship on the status of women in premodern China, this pathbreaking work argues that literate gentrywomen in seventeenth-century Jiangnan were far from oppressed or silenced. As writers, readers, editors, and teachers, these women created a rich culture and meaningful existence from within the constraints of the male-dominated Confucian system. The author reconstructs the social, emotional, and intellectual worlds of these women from the interstices between ideology, practice, and self-perception. Born out of curiosity about how premodern Chinese women lived, this book proposes a new way to conceptualize China's past. This reconception rests on the premise that by understanding how women lived, we better grasp the dynamics of gender relations and gain a more complete knowledge of the values of Chinese culture, the functioning of Chinese society, and the nature of historical change. The book examines three types of women's communities that developed in this environment: domestic, social, and public. Women from different families, age groups, and social stations were brought together by their shared love of poetry and common concerns as women. Though important at the time, most of these ties proved fragile and transitory because of women's inherently ambivalent position. The author argues that the gender system identified women both by their shared gender, or women-as-same, and by their social station, or women-as-different. This contradiction accorded women freedoms within their own limited spheres, but these spheres were fragmented and often demarcated by the class of male kin. As a result, even the most mobile and articulate of women had noinstitutional means of launching fundamental attacks on the gender system.

读后感

高彦颐还有一本著作，就是《缠足：“金莲崇拜”盛极而衰的演变》，我还没有看到。但是从闺塾师这里可以看到一些相同的观点。高彦颐认为五四时期的妇女史观过于强调传统与现代的对立以及传统妇女形象的受害形象，忽略了古代女性在生活中可能扮演的主动角色，及当时女性本...  

虽然女性研究热潮早过，但如今美国各大学比较文学系仍保留专门的女性研究方向。中国大陆的女性研究似以现当代为多，名正言顺世界影响，似乎中国古代女性两千年都是行尸走肉。这本书理性客观，材料丰富，论述严密，体现社会演化的复杂性，学术功底很厉害，让人感叹理论确实是指...  

虽然女性研究热潮早过，但如今美国各大学比较文学系仍保留专门的女性研究方向。中国大陆的女性研究似以现当代为多，名正言顺世界影响，似乎中国古代女性两千年都是行尸走肉。这本书理性客观，材料丰富，论述严密，体现社会演化的复杂性，学术功底很厉害，让人感叹理论确实是指...  

有时候一个问题就是开启一个崭新世界的钥匙。 读《闺塾师——明末清初江南的才女文化》时，高彦颐的一个发问就令我觉得惊异：“儒家的社会性别体系为何在如此长的时间内运转得这样灵活顺畅？妇女们从这一体系中获得过什么好处？”这一发问是对五四史观的颠覆。因为五四史观...  

高彦颐还有一本著作，就是《缠足：“金莲崇拜”盛极而衰的演变》，我还没有看到。但是从闺塾师这里可以看到一些相同的观点。高彦颐认为五四时期的妇女史观过于强调传统与现代的对立以及传统妇女形象的受害形象，忽略了古代女性在生活中可能扮演的主动角色，及当时女性本...  

用户评价

导论和开头几章节非常精彩，融合了多方理论和研究成果。叙事和分析都不弱。偶有逻辑瑕疵，但中心论点没有受到影响。后几章有重复拖沓的感觉。考虑到当时的情况，是一本做出突破性成果的好书。

导论和开头几章节非常精彩，融合了多方理论和研究成果。叙事和分析都不弱。偶有逻辑瑕疵，但中心论点没有受到影响。后几章有重复拖沓的感觉。考虑到当时的情况，是一本做出突破性成果的好书。

文笔秀丽，爬梳扎实，大意义略用力过猛。福柯布迪厄传授新文化/社会史，强调权力秩序在人主体互动过程中展开，文化符号在制度结构上凝聚和再生，反对程式制度化引申权力结构；性别史，强调精英阶层女性利用儒家家族和男权秩序空隙，及借助其话语正当化家务和生殖以外的活动空间，利用教化、诗文联结女性知识网络，婉曲表达独立情感渴求，也必须维护女性作为维持儒家教化、养育后代之责任，仕女与精英妻妾在才气美感上竞争，反对五四以降古中国女性集体禁锢、一无所长之图景（但此图景似仅从国家政治述说与部分作品引出，五四以来新文人和妇女解放界更丰富之话语无分析）；更广义明清社会经济史，晚明盛清江南社会经济发展，城市化，知识生产和流通商业化，产生读书公众文化，男/女、士族/平民等身份壁垒被穿透，女性拓展空间之努力搭上社会过程便车。

不煩解釋。

作為一本批判“五四女性史觀”的經典之作，此書有兩個缺陷，都跟它的subject matter——明清之際的江南文人階級才女——有關：1. 作者提到的江南才女屬於士紳階級，是否status overruling gender才使得她們比一般平民婦女甚至內陸同階層婦女有更多參與文化生活的機會？2. 作者不斷強調明清之交的社會與政治轉型給了江南閨秀拓展女性空間的機會，那麼是不是可以認為明清朝代更替是個特殊情況，本書中的江南才女只是特殊歷史背景下的temporary transgression？結合Matthew Sommer對清代婚姻與性別的法律研究，雍正改革大大延伸了國家對性規範的治理，Ko書中提到的晚明名妓文化也不復存在。兩個缺陷結合起來，本書是否真正推翻了它意圖批判的“五四女性史觀”？