| Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China Contributor(s): Ko, Dorothy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804723591 ISBN-13: 9780804723596 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1995 Annotation: The book examines three types of women's communities that developed in the premodern China environment: domestic, social, and public. Women from different families, age groups, and social stations were brought together by their shared love of poetry and common concerns as women. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 305.409 |
| LCCN: 94001166 |
| Lexile Measure: 1450 |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6.04" W x 9.02" (1.22 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |