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Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition
by Ko, Dorothy
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- Title Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding
- Author Ko, Dorothy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
- Date 2007-12-17
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0520253906
- ISBN 9780520253902 / 0520253906
- Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 8.82 x 5.82 x 0.98 in (22.40 x 14.78 x 2.49 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005002626
- Dewey Decimal Code 391.413
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"Dorothy Ko's daring in taking on the difficult subject of footbinding has resulted in a tour-de-force. In Cinderella's Sisters she rises above nationalist, feminist, and Orientalist polemic to place footbinding clearly in the domain of the history of fashion. Her ingenious narrative strategy--putting the modern story of foobinding's disappearance at the beginning--sets up her historical account of its premodern heyday as a story of concealment--of hidden sources, hidden bodies, and hidden meanings. As illusion, footbinding reveals women's sisterhood in responses to being objects of desire."--Charlotte Furth, author of A Flourishing Yin: Gender in China's Medical History: 960-1665
"Cinderella's Sister's is the long-awaited, definitive work on Chinese footbinding in English.The work also plugs into current concerns with the history of the body and of fashion. But it also does much more: at every turn it tells us something new about late imperial and republican-era Chinese society and history. It is remarkably rich in fascinating detail. A great read."--William T. Rowe, author of Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China
"Cinderella's Sister's is the long-awaited, definitive work on Chinese footbinding in English.The work also plugs into current concerns with the history of the body and of fashion. But it also does much more: at every turn it tells us something new about late imperial and republican-era Chinese society and history. It is remarkably rich in fascinating detail. A great read."--William T. Rowe, author of Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China