Gentlemen's prescriptions for women's lives : a thousand years of biographies of Chinese women /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mou, Sherry J., 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Temas:
Women > China > Social conditions.
Women > China > Bibliography.
Femmes > Chine > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Chine > Bibliographie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Women.
Women > Social conditions.
China.
Bibliographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; Explanatory Notes; Chronology of Early Chinese Dynasties; 1. From The Biographies of Women to the Biographies of Chaste Women; Introduction; Women in the Confucian Tradition; Summary of the Book; 2. Appropriating Women; Introduction; Rectification of the Name; The Formulaic Structure; The Biographies; Conclusion; 3. Subjecting Women to Histories; Introduction; Hou Han shu (History of the Later Han Dynasty [25-220]); Jin shu (History of the Jin Dynasty [265-420]); Conclusion.
  • Illustrations for Biographies follow page 1124. Reinventing Women; Introduction; Wei shu (History of the Wei Dynasty [386-556]); Sui shu (History of the Sui Dynasty [581-618]); Bei shi (History of the Northern Dynasties [386-581]); Conclusion; 5. Writing Virtues with Their Bodies; Introduction; The Paradigms: Chinese Womanhood of the Tang Dynasty (618-907); Interpreting the Inconsistencies: The Undercurrents in the Biographies; 6. Conclusion: A Biography Tradition That Is Not; Setting Examples: The Paradigm of Motherhood and the Separation of the Imperial and the Common.
  • The Reintroduction of Women: Gendering VirtuesOfficial Honoring and Willful Oblivion: The Names of Women; From Signs to Symbols: Writing Chastity with Their Bodies; Toward a Coherent Reading of the Lienü zhuan Tradition; Appendixes; A.1: The Biographies of Women: Chapter Introductions; A.2: The Biographies of Women: Chapter and Biography Titles; A.3: The Biographies of Women: Biographies by Chapter; B: Dates and Compilers of ""Biographies of Women"" Chapters in the First Nineteen Official Histories.
  • C.1: Introductions (Xu) and Eulogies (Zan) from ""Biographies of Women"": Chapters in the First Nineteen Official HistoriesC.2: Introductions (Xu) and Eulogies (Zan) from ""Biographies of Women"": Chapters in the First Nineteen Official Histories (in Chinese); D: ""Biographies of Women"" Chapters in Hou Han shu and Jin shu; E: Comparison Among ""Biographies of Women"" Chapters in Wei shu, Sui shu, and Bei shi; F: ""Biographies of Women"" Chapters in Wei shu, Sui shu, and Bei shi; G: Comparison Between the Two Tang Histories' ""Biographies of Women"" Chapters.
  • H: Paradigms, Virtues, and Expressions in the ""Biographies of Women"" Chapters in the Two Tang HistoriesGlossary; Bibliography; Index.

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