TEACHERS OF THE INNER CHAMBERS by Dorothy Ko ( 9780804723589 )

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Title:

TEACHERS OF THE INNER CHAMBERS
WOMEN AND CULTURE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CHINA

By:

Dorothy Ko

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Hardback

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0804723583

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9780804723589

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Publisher:

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 January, 1995

Pages:

395

Description:

This volume reveals the existence of a previously unknown stratum of literate women among the urban gentry in 17th- and 18th-century China arguing these women, far from being oppressed or silenced, created a rich culture and meaningful existence within the constraints of the Confucian system.

Synopsis:

Rejecting both popular image and accepted Western and Chinese scholarship on the status of women in premodern China, this pathbreaking work argues that literate gentrywomen in seventeenth-century Jiangnan were far from being oppressed or silenced. The author reconstructs the social, emotional, and intellectual worlds of these women from the interstices between ideology, practice, and self-perception.

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Stanford University Press

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