TY  - GEN
T1  - The inner quarters : marriage and the lives of Chinese women in the Sung period
A1  - Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947-
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 1993
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1170460872
AB  - 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 this thoroughly original work, one of the most respected scholars of premodern China brings to life what it was like to be a woman in Sung times, from having a marriage arranged, serving parents-in-law, rearing children, and coping with concubines, to deciding what to do if widowed. Focusing on marriage, Patricia Buckley Ebrey views family life from the perspective of women. She argues that the ideas, attitudes, and practices that constituted marriage shaped women's lives, providing the context in which they could interpret the opportunities open to them, negotiate their relationships with others, and accommodate or resist those around them. Ebrey questions whether women's situations actually deteriorated in the Sung, linking their experiences to widespread social, political, economic, and cultural changes of this period. She draws from advice books, biographies, government documents, and medical treatises to show that although the family continued to be patrilineal and patriarchal, women found ways to exert their power and authority. No other book explores the history of women in pre-twentieth-century China with such energy and depth.
OP  - 332
CN  - HQ684 .A25 1993
SN  - 9780520913486
SN  - 0520913485
SN  - 9780585104348
SN  - 0585104344
SN  - 9780520081567
SN  - 0520081560
SN  - 9780520081581
SN  - 0520081587
KW  - Marriage : China : History.
KW  - Women : China : Social conditions.
KW  - China : Social conditions : 960-1644.
KW  - Mariage : Chine : Histoire.
KW  - Femmes : Chine : Conditions sociales.
KW  - Chine : Conditions sociales : 960-1644.
KW  - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS : Abuse : Domestic Partner Abuse.
KW  - HISTORY : Asia : General.
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Women : Social conditions
KW  - China
KW  - 960-1644
KW  - Women : Social conditions.
KW  - China.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - History
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