Gender History in China

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-925608-09-0
Verlag: Trans Pacific Press

Buch, Englisch, 524 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 854 g

How have femininity and masculinity been defined and understood in China from prehistoric times to the present day?

Gender History in China presents for the first time in English the work of leading Japanese scholars in the fields of archaeology, history, literature, sociology and law who examine the gender dynamics that have shaped and changed Chinese society over several thousand years. The eighteen chapters and six columns look at the ways gender norms and customary legal practices shaped the family, kinship, and the social order, and how those norms were reflected in work patterns, inheritance, daily life, and literary works. Attention is given to the fundamental principle of qi (material essence) as a building block in cosmology, as well as in legal understandings of family relations. The second part of the volume turns to the dramatic changes in gender patterns from the late nineteenth century, looking at the inflow of new ideas, the struggle for political rights and economic equality, and the institution of new gender norms in socialist and reform-era China. The authors take up such topics as the view of the body in relation to Chinese cosmology, the incorporation of the military man into China’s model of hegemonic masculinity, the household registration system as a means of control, the appraisal of “talented women”, and the intersection of gender norms and nationalism. Gender History in China enriches our understanding of Chinese history and of contemporary Chinese society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grove, Linda

Kohama, Masako

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgement
- Preface: Gender Order in Chinese History
- [PART I]
- Phase I: Pre-Qin to Sui-Tang: Classical China – The Formation of Patrilineal Society
- Introduction
- 1. Gender Structure in Pre-Qin China from an Archaeological Perspective
- 2. The Patrilinealization of Society
- 3. Literature and Women in China
- 4. The Family in the Tang Period
- Column 1: Introduction of Historical Materials: Wives’ Divorce and Daughters’
- Inheritance of Property, Seen in Dunhuang Documents
- Column 2: Empress Wu Zetian and Thereafter
- Phase II: Song to Ming-Qing: Traditional China – The Strengthening of Gender Norms
- Introduction
- 5. Livelihood and Gender in the Tang and Song Dynasties
- Focal Point: An Overview of Shiga Shuzo’s Principles of Chinese Family Law
- 6. Traditional Family Ideology and the Chen-Zhu School
- 7. Marriage and ‘Chastity’: Structure and Change
- 8. The Sense of Social Status and Gender
- Column 3: Court Ladies and Gender
- Phase III: Modern and Contemporary China – Changing Gender Order
- Introduction
- 9. Nationalism and Gender
- 10. Masculinity in Modern China
- 11. Discourses on the Family, Love and Sex in Modern China
- 12. Women’s Labor in Modern and Contemporary China
- 13. The Founding of the People’s Republic of China and the Transformation of Gender Order
- 14. Rearrangement of Gender Order in Post-Mao China: Changing Networks of Women’s Federations
- Column 4: Two Histories of Women in Modern China
- [PART II]
- 15. The Household Register and the Family in Ancient China
- 16. Perceptions of ‘Talented Women’
- 17. Healthcare, the Body and Gender in Chinese Medicine
- 18. The History of Women’s/Gender Studies and Feminism in China
- Column 5: Sexual Minorities
- Column 6: Theatre and Gender
- Bibliography
- Index