Dorothy Ko

Dorothy Ko is professor of history at Barnard College. She is the author of The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China (University of Washington Press, 2017), Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (University of California Press, 2005), Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet (University of California Press, 2001), and Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China (Stanford, 1994); and coeditor of The Birth of...See more

Dorothy Ko is professor of history at Barnard College. She is the author of The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China (University of Washington Press, 2017), Cinderella's Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (University of California Press, 2005), Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet (University of California Press, 2001), and Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China (Stanford, 1994); and coeditor of The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory (Columbia University Press, 2013). See less