Festivals, Feasts, and Gender Relations in Ancient China and Greece

Examines gender relations in ancient Chinese and Greek societies as reflected in convivial contexts such as banquets, festivals, and feasts.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Among Men: 1. Greece: comrades, citizens, and boys; 2. China: ancestors, brothers, and sons; Part II. Between Men and Women, among Women: 3. Public festivals and domestic rites; 4. At the table and behind the scenes; Part III. Female Experience and Male Imagination: 5. What women sang of; Conclusion.

About the author

Yiqun Zhou is Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. She has contributed to Nan Nu: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China and Children and Childhood in World Religions.

Product details

• Authors: Yiqun Zhou, Yiqun (Stanford University Zhou, Zhou Yiqun
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.10.2013
• EAN: 9781107665507
• ISBN: 978-1-107-66550-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; China, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, Ancient World, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Asian History, Gender studies, gender groups, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory