03300nam 2200613Ia 450 991082125370332120200520144314.00-7914-8038-01-4294-7141-7(CKB)1000000000473980(OCoLC)140182566(CaPaEBR)ebrary10575779(SSID)ssj0000201228(PQKBManifestationID)11166742(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000201228(PQKBWorkID)10232713(PQKB)11228855(MiAaPQ)EBC3407353(MdBmJHUP)muse6516(Au-PeEL)EBL3407353(CaPaEBR)ebr10575779(OCoLC)923404193(DE-B1597)682978(DE-B1597)9780791480380(EXLCZ)99100000000047398020060728d2007 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrMencius and masculinities dynamics of power, morality, and maternal thinking /Joanne D. BirdwhistellAlbany State University of New York Pressc20071 online resource (170 p.) SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and cultureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-7029-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-154) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Hidden in Plain View -- Text as Cultural Landscape -- Against Shen Nong’s Agrarian Masculinity -- Against King Hui’s Self-Centered Masculinity -- Compassionate Governing -- Ruling as Son and Younger Brother -- Ruling as Father and Mother of the People -- Mothers, Feelings, and Masculinity -- Gender, a Continuing Issue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIn this innovative work, Joanne D. Birdwhistell presents the first gender analysis of the Mencius, a central text in the Chinese philosophical tradition. Mencian philosophy, particularly its ideas about the processes by which a man could develop into a cultivated gentleman, was important to the political thought of China's long imperial order. Through close textual readings, Birdwhistell offers a new interpretation of core Mencian ideas about the heart and the self-cultivation of the great man. She argues that the concept of masculinity advocated by the Mencius is derived, although without acknowledgment, from maternal practices and thinking—through processes of appropriation, inversion, and transformation. She illustrates that even though maternal practices and thinking are an invisible dimension of Mencian thought, they are constantly present in the text through their transcoding with agricultural practices and thinking.SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.Philosophy, ChineseTo 221 B.CGender identity in literaturePhilosophy, ChineseGender identity in literature.181/.112Birdwhistell Joanne D.1944-1624381MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821253703321Mencius and masculinities3959326UNINA