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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Berkeley :
University of California Press
[1993]
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| Online pristup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctv1wxthm |
Sadržaj:
- 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.