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 4/5(1). · 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 /5(2). · Cinderella's Sisters A Revisionist History of Footbinding. by Dorothy Ko (Author) December ; First Edition; Paperback $, £ eBook $, £; Endowments Philip E. Lilienthal Imprint in Asian Studies; Title Details. Rights: Available worldwide Pages: ISBN: Trim Size: 6 x 9 Illustrations: 53 b/w photographs, 1 map, 1 table.
Dorothy Kos new history of footbinding is a wonderfully imaginative, wide-rang ing, and provocative study of a subject long in need of revisionism. She argues persuasively that there is not one footbinding but many, and that therefore any history of footbinding has to recognize first and foremost the multifaceted com plexity of the phenomenon. Cinderella's Sisters A Revisionist History of Footbinding Dorothy Ko By Dorothy Ko. Format: Paperback. $ / $ CAN. REQUEST EXAM COPY REQUEST DESK COPY. About the Book. 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. The item Cinderella's sisters: a revisionist history of footbinding, Dorothy Ko represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Colby College Libraries. Cinderella's sisters: a revisionist history of footbinding, Dorothy Ko represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a.
Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding. by. Dorothy Ko. · Rating details · ratings · 24 reviews. 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. 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. “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.
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