Sherry J. Mou's Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives: A Thousand PDF

By Sherry J. Mou

ISBN-10: 0765608677

ISBN-13: 9780765608673

way back to the 1st century BCE, chinese language dynastic historians - all males - started recording the achievements of chinese language ladies and making a constitution of realizing that may be used to restrict and keep watch over them. To males, those girls turned function versions for his or her daughters and other halves; to the few literate ladies readers, they turned paradigms for his or her personal habit. hence, even if those biographies are descriptive via nature, they really grew to become prescriptive. Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives is an enlightening resource for learning chinese language ladies of the Imperial period in addition to for figuring out chinese language womanhood as a rule. by way of contextualizing those biographies, the writer exhibits us those girls not only because the complaisant, calm-eyed, gentle figures that beautify Confucian texts, but additionally because the items of the Confucian tradition's appropriation of women.

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