Women's Studies Department Faculty

DOROTHY KO

Professor of History

Research and Teaching Interests:

Recently completed research: History of footbinding, body and sexuality.

Current research: Women's material cultures in East Asia, including
embroidery, cosmetics, and fashion; female artisans in early modern China

Publications:

D. Ko. and Sheng Wand, eds., Translating Feminisms in China (Blackwell, 2007).

Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (University of California Press, 2005).

Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet (2001)

Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-century China (1994)

Women's Studies Teaching:

Undergraduate seminar (HIST 4861) on "Body histories" (Spring 2004)

New undergraduate seminar on "fashion" (Fall 2005)

Graduate seminars on "Gender and writing in China and Korea" and "Visual and Material Cultures"

Activist Interest