ISBN:
9780520913486
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0520913485
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0585104344
,
9780585104348
,
9780520081567
,
0520081560
,
9780520081581
,
0520081587
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xviii, 332 pages)
,
illustrations, map
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Pee, Christian de PATRICIA BUCKLEY EBREY, The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Women in the Sung Period. Foreword by Bonnie Smith. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1993, XIX + 332 pp. Illustrated. 45.00 (hardback; ISBN 0-520-08156-0); 16.00 (paperback; ISBN 0-520-08158-7) 1995
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, 1947- Inner quarters
DDC:
306.872095109021
Keywords:
Marriage History
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China
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Women Social conditions
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China
;
Women Social conditions
;
Marriage History
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Marriage
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Social conditions
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Women ; Social conditions
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HISTORY ; Asia ; General
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Abuse ; Domestic Partner Abuse
;
History
;
China Social conditions
;
960-1644
;
China
;
China Social conditions 960-1644
;
China
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
Separating the sexes -- Meanings of marriage -- Making a match -- Rites and celebrations -- Dowries -- Upper-class wives as inner helpers -- Women's work making cloth -- Husband-wife relations -- Motherhood -- Widowhood -- Second marriages -- Concubines -- Continuing the family through women -- Adultery, incest, and divorce -- Reflections on women, marriage, and change.
Abstract:
The Sung Dynasty (960-1279) was a paradoxical era for Chinese women. This was a time when footbinding spread, and Confucian scholars began to insist that it was better for a widow to starve than to remarry. Yet there were also improvements in women's status in marriage and property rights. In this thoroughly original work, one of the most respected scholars of premodern China brings to life 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, Patricia Buckley Ebrey views family life from the perspective of women. She argues that the ideas, attitudes, and practices that constituted marriage shaped women's lives, providing the context in which they could interpret the opportunities open to them, negotiate their relationships with others, and accommodate or resist those around them.Ebrey questions whether women's situations actually deteriorated in the Sung, linking their experiences to widespread social, political, economic, and cultural changes of this period. She draws from advice books, biographies, government documents, and medical treatises to show that although the family continued to be patrilineal and patriarchal, women found ways to exert their power and authority. No other book explores the history of women in pre-twentieth-century China with such energy and depth
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-219) and index. - Description based on print version record
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