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Philosophical Meditations of Lady Wang [electronic resource] : Ethics and Gender in Imperial China
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yang, Jinfeng (Physicist)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Gender.
- Methodology.
- Feminist theory--Philosophy--China.
- Feminist theory.
- Women--Suffrage--History--China.
- Women.
- Women--China--Social conditions.
- Local Subjects:
- Ethics.
- Gender.
- Methodology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Other Title:
- Philosophical Meditations of Lady Wang
- Place of Publication:
- : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This refreshing work draws upon a multitude of fields including philosophy and psychology from both the eastern and western traditions in order to construct an inclusive view of ethics and gender. The goal is to better understand the crucial role that group awareness plays in advocating support in gender justice issues. This study includes the first ever English translation of the epic 12th Century work, Plaint of Lady Wang.
- Contents:
- ""The Philosophical Meditations of Lady Wang: Ethics and Gender in Imperial China ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Acknowledgement ""; ""Transliteration ""; ""Introduction - Ethics and Gender: An Inclusive View for the Study of the Plaint of Lady Wang ""; ""Chapter One - Beauty and Reason Ethical and Philosophical Conceptions ""; ""Chapter Two - Self as Moral Agent: Identity ""; ""Chapter Three - In Search of a Neo-Confucian Model of Feminist Consciousness: Lady Wang, Zhu Xi, J.S. Mill and Consciousness Raising ""
- ""Chapter Four - Mystics and the Wisdom Within Woman's Religious Experience and Existential Choice """"The Plaint of Lady Wang ""; ""Appendix I ""; ""Appendix II ""; ""Appendix III ""; ""Glossary ""; ""Bibliography ""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Contains:
- Together with the first translation from Chinese into English of the plaint of lady Wang.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-0744-8
- OCLC:
- 856870132
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