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Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives : a Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women : A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women.
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. To men, these women became role models for their daughters and wives; to the few lit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor and Francis,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. To men, these women became role models for their daughters and wives; to the few literate women readers, they became paradigms for their own behavior. Thus, although these biographies are descriptive by nature, they actually became prescriptive. Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives is an enlightening source for studying Chinese women of the Imperial era as well as for unders. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (376 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781315704135 1315704137 |