wyszukanych pozycji: 4
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Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China: Survival Strategies and Judicial Interventions
ISBN: 9780520287037 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 499 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This book is a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912). By analyzing over 1200 legal cases from local and central court archives, Matthew Sommer explores the functions played by marriage, sex, and reproduction in the survival strategies of the rural poor under conditions of overpopulation, worsening sex ratios, and shrinking farm sizes. Polyandry and wife-selling represented opposite ends of a spectrum of strategies. At one end, polyandry was a means to keep the family together by expanding it. A woman would bring in a...
This book is a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912). By analyzing over 12...
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358,79 zł |
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The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China
ISBN: 9780231214131 / Miękka / 2024 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
cena:
133,88 zł |
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The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China
ISBN: 9780231214124 / Twarda / 2024 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
cena:
535,50 zł |
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Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China
ISBN: 9780804745598 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, arguing that the eighteenth century in China was a time of profound change in sexual matters. During this time, the basic organizing principle for state regulation of sexuality shifted away from status, under which members of different groups had long been held to distinct standards of familial and sexual morality. In its place, a new regime of gender mandated a uniform standard of sexual morality and criminal liability across status boundaries--all people...
This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, arguing that ...
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cena:
132,72 zł |