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How can re-figuring the body uncover alternative epistemologies of racialized and gendered violence? This talk seeks to explore this question by examining the visual cultures of footbinding as a paradigm of violence against Asian women that continues to haunt despite repeated claims of its end. By juxtaposing contemporary visual arts against archival images from the era of Western colonial expansion in China beginning in the 19th century, Michelle Lee examines the episteme of footbinding through its various apparatuses (i.e. stereograph, print media, written travelogues, medical reports, and visual arts.) to construct a specific genealogy. In doing so, Lee argues that framing the particularities of footbinding as one mode of violence against Asian women out of many can elucidate the ways Asian women have not only endured very specific forms of discriminatory violence, but also how their visibility has been dependent on their susceptibility to violence.
Michelle Lee is currently a Humanities in Leadership Learning Series Postdoctoral Fellow at Case Western, where she currently teaches in the History Department. She received her Ph.D. in the Department of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Lee's research has been generously supported by the Social Sciences Research Council, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Huntington Library, Museum, and Botanical Gardens. You can find her work published in Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory and ArtAsiaPacific Magazine, and Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. In Fall 2024, she will be joining the University of Illinois, Chicago as an Assistant Professor of Global Asian Studies.
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