Article ID: CBB001214320

Epilogue: Textiles, Technology, and Gender in China (2012)

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Ko, Dorothy (Author)


East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Volume: 36
Pages: 167--176


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Women and Textile Production Techniques in Traditional China”
Language: English

The seminal research of Francesca Bray (1997) and Susan Mann (1992, 1997) on women and domestic work, especially textiles, have inspired a generation of new research in cultural history and art history, and the articles presented in this special issue attest to the productivity of this emergent field of inquiry. But curiously, historians of science and technology---Bray's intended audience---have been slow in embracing gender in their research agendas (with the notable exception of historians of medicine.) The reasons for this lacuna are complex, but the three articles gathered here suggest at least one answer: that one cannot take gender and women seriously without questioning existing paradigms about innovation, knowledge-making, and skills, and thus the very meanings of science and technology.

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Authors & Contributors
Feng Zhao
Zhao, Hansheng
Jiang, Xiaoyuan
Chen, Buyun
Mosseveld, Anneke van
Alka Raman
Concepts
Textiles
Technological innovation
Technology
Technology and gender
Weaving
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
Han dynasty (China, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.)
Ancient
Places
China
India
Ryukyu
Connecticut (U.S.)
Shanghai (China)
Spain
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