| 英文摘要 |
This action research examined the topic of footbinding in a high school gender history course, addressing two persistent issues: treating gender as an“add-on”and flattening women into a single category of victims. An elective course was designed around intersectionality and translocational positionality to analyze oppressors and the oppressed within national and global hierarchies and to examine differences within each group. The curriculum situates footbinding within historical contexts, national hierarchies, and gendered racism, foregrounding womens heterogeneity and agency. After the course, students moved beyond binary framings and critically assessed the male-dominated antifootbinding movement through a gendered lens. Using intersectionality and historical thinking, students located footbinding discourse within a broader context, interrogating both its historical meanings and prevailing evaluations. Students recognized womens’differences and subjectivity and empathized with the choices and circumstances of womens who practiced footbinding. Through the action-research cycle, the teacher deepened her understanding of the topic and students’prior knowledge, refined her pedagogy, and translated gender history into student-centered materials. This study demonstrates the promise of intersectionality in secondary history education, responds to calls in gender history to integrate intersectional perspectives, and helps bridge gender studies with gender and history education. |