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 Zheng Wang, 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:

WMST BC3132 Gendered Controversies: Women's & Bodies' Global Conflicts

WMST W4300 Chinese Feminisms in a Global World (CU)

HIST 4861 Body Histories: Footbinding

HIST 4886 Fashion

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

Activist Interest