ISBN:
9780231214124
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9780231214131
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 360 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Sommer, Matthew H. The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China
DDC:
306.760951
Keywords:
17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.)
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18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.)
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19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.)
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c 1500 to c 1600
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c 1600 to c 1700
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c 1700 to c 1800
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c 1800 to c 1900
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zweite Hälfte 16. Jahrhundert (1550 bis 1599 n. Chr.)
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Sex customs History 18th century
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Sex customs History 19th century
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Gender identity History 18th century
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Gender identity History 19th century
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Sex role History 18th century
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Sex role History 19th century
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Asian history
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Asiatische Geschichte
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Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
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Gender Studies: Transgender, Transsexuelle, Intersexuelle
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Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism
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HISTORY / Asia / China
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Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
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SOC064020
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China
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China
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China
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Transgender
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Geschichte 1368-1911
Abstract:
"In Transgender in Imperial China, Matthew Sommer offers a close reading of a series of remarkable, well-documented court cases from the 18th and 19th century Qing dynasty legal archives that deal with sex and gender difference. The book explores practices in their specific historical context and avoids imposing trans-historical identities on people in the past, understanding, in the vein of Susan Stryker's work, that "transgender people" are those who "move away from" the gender assigned at birth and "cross over" the gender boundaries imposed by their society, without assuming any specific motivation or destination for that movement. Sommer details the experience of individuals assigned male at birth who were living as women (and were punished very harshly for the crime of "masquerading in women's attire"), but also includes under the sign "transgender" a range of personae not usually considered in this context, such as cross-dressing "boy actresses" of the opera and those who "left the family" by becoming Buddhist or Daoist clergy or eunuchs in imperial service and renouncing normative gender roles based on marriage and procreation. These cases explore a range of themes in Chinese law, society, and culture, and illuminate how many forms of gender transgression were sanctioned by law in Qing society. In considering all of these scenarios together, Sommer's book unpacks the full story of how sex and gender were understood in the Qing era"--
Abstract:
This book is a groundbreaking study of transgender lives and practices in late imperial China. Through close readings of court cases, as well as Ming and Qing fiction and nineteenth-century newspaper accounts, Matthew H. Sommer examines the social, legal, and cultural histories of gender crossing
Description / Table of Contents:
Transgender Paradigms in Late Imperial China -- The Paradigm of the Cross-Dressing Predator -- Clergy as Wolves in Sheep's Clothing -- Creativity Inspired by Torment? -- The Fox Spirit Medium -- The Truth of the Body -- The Hustler.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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