Gentlemen's prescriptions for women's lives : a thousand years of biographies of Chinese women / Sherry J. Mou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mou, Sherry J., 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--China--Social conditions.

Women.

China.

Social conditions.

Women--China--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 300 pages, 60 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2004]

Summary:

As far back as the first century BCE, Chinese dynastic historians -- all men -- began recording the achievements of Chinese women and creating a structure of understanding that would be used to limit and control them. This collection is an enlightening source for studying Chinese women of the imperial era as well as for understanding Chinese womanhood in general. By contextualizing these biographies, the author shows us these women not just as the complaisant, calm-eyed, delicate figures that adorn Confucian texts, but also as the products of the Confucian tradition's appropriation of women.

Notes:

"An East Gate book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-286) and index.

ISBN:

0765608677

OCLC:

49225623