Divine, demonic, and disordered : women without men in Song Dynasty China /
"A variety of Chinese writings-medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes-from the Song period (960-1279) depict women who were considered peculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong to men. These were women who refused to marry, were considered unmarriageable, or were m...
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2021]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1d1qmr1 |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I. RECONFIGURING GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND ILLNESS
- PART II. INCONVENIENT FEMALE SEXUALITY AND MULTIVOCAL NARRATIVES
- PART III. GENDERED IDENTITIES AND FEMALE CELIBACY
- Conclusion
- Chinese Character Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index