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Editors and translators Wang and Ivanhoe introduce the lives and ideas of two female Korean Confucian philosophers from the late Joseon Dynasty, Im Yunjidang (1721-1793) and Gang Jeongildang (1772-1832), exploring their writings and arguments for the ability of women to attain the highest forms of intellectual and moral achievement and become female sages (
yeoseong).
List of contents
- Conventions
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Cover Illustration
- Introduction
- Book I: The Extant Writings of Yunjidang
- Biographies
- Discourses
- Colophons
- Expositions
- Admonitions
- Inscriptions
- Encomium
- Funeral Orations
- Prologue
- [Works on] the Meaning of the Classics
- Book II: The Extant Writings of Jeongildang
- Poems
- Letters
- Personal Missives [Offered to My Husband]
- Additional Letters
- Commemorations
- Forwards and Postscripts
- Epitaphs
- Short Biographies
- Funeral Orations
- Inscriptions
- Miscellaneous Writings
- Lost Works (I): Poems
- Lost Works (II): Personal Missives [Offered to My Husband]
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Philip J. Ivanhoe is a Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures at Georgetown University and Visiting Distinguished Chair Professor in the College of Confucian Studies and Eastern Philosophy at Sungkyunkwan University.
Hwa Yeong Wang is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Duke Kunshan University. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Her research focuses on ancient Chinese and Korean Confucianism, especially their influence on women and gender through ritual.
Summary
Editors and translators Wang and Ivanhoe introduce the lives and ideas of two female Korean Confucian philosophers from the late Joseon Dynasty, Im Yunjidang (1721-1793) and Gang Jeongildang (1772-1832), exploring their writings and arguments for the ability of women to attain the highest forms of intellectual and moral achievement and become female sages (yeoseong).
