Inner Quarters - Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period

Informationen zum Autor Patricia Buckley Ebrey is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois! Urbana! and the author of Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China (1991). Klappentext "Opening up questions about women's lives! about gender! about why we read history at all and how we write it! Patricia Buckley Ebrey has made The Inner Quarters a place we need to enter."-from the Foreword Zusammenfassung The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women. This work shows what it was like to be a woman in Sung times, from having a marriage arranged, serving parents-in-law, rearing children, and coping with concubines, to deciding what to do if widowed. Focusing on marriage, it views family life from the perspective of women. Inhaltsverzeichnis FOREWORD! BY BONNIE SMITH PREFACE NOTES ON CONVENTIONS THE BORDERS OF SUNG CHINA (960-1279) INTRODUCTION I. Separating the Sexes 2. Meanings of Marriage 3. Making a Match 4. Rites and Celebrations 5. Dowries 6. Upper-Class Wives as Inner Helpers 7. Women's Work Making Cloth 8. Husband-Wife Relations 9. Motherhood 10. Widowhood 11. Second Marriages 12. Concubines 13. Continuing the Family Through Women 14. Adultery! Incest! and Divorce 15. Reflections on Women! Marriage! and Change NOTES SOURCES CITED INDEX

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Ebrey, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Ebrey Patricia Buckley
• Assisted by: Bonnie Smith (Foreword), Smith Bonnie (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1993
• EAN: 9780520081581
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08158-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Feminism & feminist theory, Social and cultural history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Feminism and feminist theory, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE