Gender History in China

ISBN-13: 9781925608090 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 524 str.

Linda Grove; Masako Kohama

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• Figures
• Contributors
• Acknowledgement
• Preface: Gender Order in Chinese History
• [PART I]
• Phase I: Pre-Qin to Sui-Tang: Classical China – The Formation of Patrilineal Society
• Introduction
• 1. Gender Structure in Pre-Qin China from an Archaeological Perspective
• 2. The Patrilinealization of Society
• 3. Literature and Women in China
• 4. The Family in the Tang Period
• Column 1: Introduction of Historical Materials: Wives’ Divorce and Daughters’
• Inheritance of Property, Seen in Dunhuang Documents
• Column 2: Empress Wu Zetian and Thereafter
• Phase II: Song to Ming-Qing: Traditional China – The Strengthening of Gender Norms
• Introduction
• 5. Livelihood and Gender in the Tang and Song Dynasties
• Focal Point: An Overview of Shiga Shuzo’s Principles of Chinese Family Law
• 6. Traditional Family Ideology and the Chen-Zhu School
• 7. Marriage and ‘Chastity’: Structure and Change
• 8. The Sense of Social Status and Gender
• Column 3: Court Ladies and Gender
• Phase III: Modern and Contemporary China – Changing Gender Order
• Introduction
• 9. Nationalism and Gender
• 10. Masculinity in Modern China
• 11. Discourses on the Family, Love and Sex in Modern China
• 12. Women’s Labor in Modern and Contemporary China
• 13. The Founding of the People’s Republic of China and the Transformation of Gender Order
• 14. Rearrangement of Gender Order in Post-Mao China: Changing Networks of Women’s Federations
• Column 4: Two Histories of Women in Modern China
• [PART II]
• 15. The Household Register and the Family in Ancient China
• 16. Perceptions of ‘Talented Women’
• 17. Healthcare, the Body and Gender in Chinese Medicine
• 18. The History of Women’s/Gender Studies and Feminism in China
• Column 5: Sexual Minorities
• Column 6: Theatre and Gender
• Bibliography
• Index