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Disgraceful matters: the politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China

Janet M. Theiss c2004 © University of California Press
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  • 9780520240339 (hardcover)
  • 9780520930667 (ebook)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • A Note on Textual Conventions (page xiii)
  • A Note on Dynasties and Reigns (page xv)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • PART ONE The Chastening State: The Qing Chastity Cult in Ritual, Law, and Statecraft
    • Prologue: A Chaste Barbarian Martyrs Herself on the Imperial Frontier (page 17)
    • 1. Defining Gender Orthodoxy for a Multiethnic Empire (page 25)
    • 2. Statecraft and Gender Order in the Qianlong Reign (page 39)
  • PART TWO Female Virtue and the Politics of Patriarchy
    • Prologue: A Righteous Husband Plays the Politics of the Wifely Way (page 57)
    • 3. Enforcing Gender Order: Between the Ancestral Hall and the Yamen (page 65)
    • 4. Divided Loyalties: Natal Families and the Exercise of Patrilineal Authority (page 82)
    • 5. Adultery, Incest and the Multiple Meanings of Patriarchy (page 98)
  • PART THREE Mapping Chastity across Boundaries of Body, Mind, and Space
    • Prologue: A Compromised Widow Sacrifices Her Body to Defend Inner Virtue (page 121)
    • 6. The Wages of Wanton Mixing: Violation and Gender Disorder (page 133)
    • 7. "Accommodating Sages": Gender Separation in Social Practice (page 154)
  • PART FOUR "Being a Person": Female Humiliation and Social Power
    • Prologue: Male Impropriety and Female Outrage Lead to a Tragic End (page 167)
    • 8. The Problem of Female Moral Agency (page 177)
    • 9. The Logic of Female Suicide (page 192)
    • Epilogue (page 211)
  • Notes (page 219)
  • A Note on Archival Sources (page 259)
  • Character List (page 261)
  • Bibliography (page 265)
  • Index (page 275)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
CRI 12.2 (Fall 2005): 307-311 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/china_review_international/v012/12.2hegel.pdf
JSocH 39.4 (2006): 1200-1203 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_social_history/v039/39.4rawski.html
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