1st Edition
Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women
By Sherry J. Mou
Copyright 2002
376 Pages
by
Routledge
376 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 literate women readers, they became paradigms for their own behavior. Thus, although these biographies... Read more
Explanatory Notes Chronology of Chinese Dynasties 1. Introduction: From the Biographies of Women to the Biographies of Chaste Women 2. A Confucian Appropriation of Women: An Explication of Liu Xiang's Lienu Zhuan 3. Subjecting Women to Histories: Foregrounding Classes 4. Reinventing Women: Genderizing Virtues 5. Writing Virtues with Their Bodies: Interpreting the Inconsistencies 6. Conclusion: A Biography Tradition That Is Not
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Sherry J. Mou
