The inner quarters : marriage and the lives of Chinese women in the Sung period /

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 t...

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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947- (Egilea)
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Berkeley : University of California Press [1993]
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctv1wxthm
Aurkibidea:
  • Separating the sexes
  • Meanings of marriage
  • Making a match
  • Rites and celebrations
  • Dowries
  • Upper-class wives as inner helpers
  • Women's work making cloth
  • Husband-wife relations
  • Motherhood
  • Widowhood
  • Second marriages
  • Concubines
  • Continuing the family through women
  • Adultery, incest, and divorce
  • Reflections on women, marriage, and change.