ISBN:
0520913485
,
0585104344
,
9780520913486
,
9780585104348
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 332 p)
,
ill., 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:
Print version Inner quarters
DDC:
306.872/0951/09021
Keywords:
Marriage History
;
Women Social conditions
;
China Social conditions 960-1644
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books History
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, P
Description / Table of Contents:
Separating the sexesMeanings 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-219) and index
