The inner quarters : marriage and the lives of Chinese women in the Sung period /

The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women. This was a time when footbinding spread, and Confucian scholars began to insist that it was better for a widow to starve than to remarry. Yet there were also improvements in women's status in marriage and property rights. In t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993]
Subjects:
960-1644
Marriage > China > History.
Women > China > Social conditions.
Mariage > Chine > Histoire.
Femmes > Chine > Conditions sociales.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Abuse > Domestic Partner Abuse.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
Marriage
Social conditions
Women > Social conditions
China > Social conditions > 960-1644.
Chine > Conditions sociales > 960-1644.
China
Women > Social conditions.
China.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Separating the sexes
  • Meanings of marriage
  • Making a match
  • Rites and celebrations
  • Dowries
  • Upper-class wives as inner helpers
  • Women's work making cloth
  • Husband-wife relations
  • Motherhood
  • Widowhood
  • Second marriages
  • Concubines
  • Continuing the family through women
  • Adultery, incest, and divorce
  • Reflections on women, marriage, and change.

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