Women and Confucian cultures in premodern China, Korea, and Japan / edited by Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, and Joan R. Piggott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ko, Dorothy, 1957-

Haboush, JaHyun Kim.

Piggott, Joan R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--China--History.

Women.

Women--Japan--History.

Women--Korea--History.

Confucianism--Social aspects.

Confucianism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The authors discuss the absence of women in the Confucian canonical tradition and examine the presence of women in politics, family, education, and art in premodern China, Korea, and Japan. What emerges is a concept of Confucianism that is dynamic instead of monolithic in shaping the cultures of East Asian societies. As teachers, mothers, writers, and rulers, women were active agents in this process. Neither rebels nor victims, these women embraced aspects of official norms while resisting others. The essays present a powerful image of what it meant to be female and to live a woman's life in a variety of social settings and historical circumstances. Challenging the conventional notion of Confucianism as an oppressive tradition that victimized women, this provocative book reveals it as a modern construct that does not reflect the social and cultural histories of East Asia before the nineteenth century.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES

PREFACE

NOTES ON CONVENTIONS

Introduction

1. The Patriarchal Family Paradigm in Eighth-Century Japan

2. The Last Classical Female Sovereign: Kōken-Shōtoku Tennō

3. Representation of Females in Twelfth-Century Korean Historiography

4. The Presence and Absence of Female Musicians and Music in China

5. Women and the Transmission of Confucian Culture in Song China

6. Propagating Female Virtues in Chosŏn Korea

7. State Indoctrination of Filial Piety in Tokugawa Japan: Sons and Daughters in the Official Records of Filial Piety

8. Norms and Texts for Women's Education in Tokugawa Japan

9. Competing Claims on Womanly Virtue in Late Imperial China

10. Discipline and Transformation: Body and Practice in the Lives of Daoist Holy Women of Tang China

11. Versions and Subversions: Patriarchy and Polygamy in Korean Narratives

GLOSSARY

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER READING

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786613520371

9781598750126

1598750127

9781280092206

1280092203

9780520927827

0520927826

OCLC:

475928341