Journal of Women's History articles from January 1997

Journal of Women's History archives from January 1997

The body as attire: the shifting meanings of footbinding in seventeenth-century China.
January 1, 1997... Footbinding was superfluous in the colonial age: its prestige had wanted and its aura dimmed but the practice lingered, more stubbornly than the abolitionists had anticipated. I have been probing this disjuncture by subjecting the bound foot to...

Lingering fragrance: the poetry of Tu Yaose and Shen Tiansun.
January 1, 1997... In the silken boudoir, bosom friends're rare; Xue Lingyun trims the wick and embroiders. The night is cool, the bright moon low in the window. Still in her orchid chambers, she writes a letter in "fallen chives" ...

Beyond benevolence: a Confucian women's shelter in treaty-port China.
January 1, 1997... In the spring of 1878, at the height of one of the worst famines in history, merchants and officials from South China established a home for widows and orphans in the northern city of Tianjin. The founders called their institution the Hall for...

Female heroes and moonish lovers: women's paradoxical identities in modern Chinese songs.
January 1, 1997... Studies of gender, women, and their representations in Chinese culture greatly flourished during the first half of the 1990s, resulting in a series of groundbreaking anthologies which gathered together works by both Chinese and Western...

Maoism, feminism, and the UN Conference on Women: women's studies research in contemporary China.
January 1, 1997... On a September morning at Huairou, the site of the 1995 Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Forum, over three hundred women from all over the world gathered in an auditorium to listen to the presentations of a group of Chinese women scholars...

In Other Words: New Writing by Indian Women.
January 1, 1997... The normal rule in the prison was for all prisoners to line up with their kits neatly rolled and utensils clean and shiny whenever the superintendent came around for his weekly inspection. We had decided from the first day that since we were...

Blood into Ink: South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War.
January 1, 1997... The normal rule in the prison was for all prisoners to line up with their kits neatly rolled and utensils clean and shiny whenever the superintendent came around for his weekly inspection. We had decided from the first day that since we were...

The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women's Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990.
January 1, 1997... The normal rule in the prison was for all prisoners to line up with their kits neatly rolled and utensils clean and shiny whenever the superintendent came around for his weekly inspection. We had decided from the first day that since we were...

An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls Her Life.
January 1, 1997... The normal rule in the prison was for all prisoners to line up with their kits neatly rolled and utensils clean and shiny whenever the superintendent came around for his weekly inspection. We had decided from the first day that since we were...

Sketches from My Past: Encounters with India's Oppressed.
January 1, 1997... The normal rule in the prison was for all prisoners to line up with their kits neatly rolled and utensils clean and shiny whenever the superintendent came around for his weekly inspection. We had decided from the first day that since we were...

The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period.
January 1, 1997... Patricia Buckley Ebrey's The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period and Dorothy Ko's Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth Century China each represents a landmark in the field of...

Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China.
January 1, 1997... Patricia Buckley Ebrey's The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period and Dorothy Ko's Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth Century China each represents a landmark in the field of...

Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism.
January 1, 1997... The two works under consideration represent some of the best and most interesting of late eighties and early nineties scholarship on China. I am now forced to consider myself one of the "earlier generation" of scholars (never an easy...

Body, Subject and Power in China.
January 1, 1997... The two works under consideration represent some of the best and most interesting of late eighties and early nineties scholarship on China. I am now forced to consider myself one of the "earlier generation" of scholars (never an easy...