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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Päätekijä: Cheng, Hsiao-wen (Tekijä)
Aineistotyyppi: Licensed eBooks
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2021]
Linkit:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1d1qmr1
Sisällysluettelo:
  • 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