Reconceiving Women's Equality In China - A Critical Examination Of Models Of Sex Equality

Informationen zum Autor Lijun Yuan is professor of philosophy at Texas State University-San Marcos. Klappentext According to the author, the subordination of Chinese women continued under different models of sex equality in China in the twentieth century. In Reconceiving Women's Equality in China Lijun Yuan discusses and assesses four models of womenOs equality. After exposing the common feature of their failure to reach the social ideal of womenOs equality, the author proposes a more democratic conception of womenOs equality that will allow ideals to continue changing as material circumstances change in different stages of social development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Confucius, Confucianism, and the Confucian Rationale for Women's Inequality Chapter 2 May Fourth Era and Women's Formal Equality Chapter 3 Women's Equality in Mao's Time Chapter 4 Equal Opportunity in the Post-Mao Period Chapter 5 A Democratic Conception of Women's Equality

Product details

• Authors: Lijun Yuan
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2005
• EAN: 9780739112281
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1228-1
• No. of pages: 137
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy of religion, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Oriental & Indian philosophy, East Asian & Indian philosophy