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200 10$aDisgraceful matters $ethe politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China /$fJanet M. Theiss
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2004
215   $a1 online resource (299 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-520-24033-2 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-274) and index.
327   $tIntroduction --$tPART ONE: The Chastening State: The Qing Chastity Cult in Ritual, Law, and Statecraft --$tPrologue: A Chaste Barbarian Martyrs Herself on the Imperial Frontier --$t1. Defining Gender Orthodoxy for a Multiethnic Empire --$t2. Statecraft and Gender Order in the Qianlong Reign --$tPART TWO: Female Virtue and the Politics of Patriarchy --$tPrologue: A Righteous Husband Plays the Politics of the Wifely Way --$t3. Enforcing Gender Order: Between the Ancestral Hall and the Yamen --$t4. Divided Loyalties: Natal Families and the Exercise of Patrilineal Authority --$t5. Adultery, Incest and the Multiple Meanings of Patriarchy --$tPART THREE: Mapping Chastity across Boundaries of Body, Mind, and Space --$tPrologue: A Compromised Widow Sacrifices Her Body to Defend Inner Virtue --$t6. The Wages of Wanton Mixing: Violation and Gender Disorder --$t7. "Accommodating Sages": Gender Separation in Social Practice --$tPART FOUR: "Being a Person": Female Humiliation and Social Power --$tPrologue: Male Impropriety and Female Outrage Lead to a Tragic End --$t8. The Problem of Female Moral Agency --$t9. The Logic of Female Suicide --$tEpilogue
330   $aLooking beyond the familiar trappings of the cult of female chastity-such as hagiographies of widows and chastity shrines--in late imperial China, this book explores the cult's political significance and practical ramifications in everyday life during the eighteenth century. In the first full-length study of the subject, Janet Theiss examines a vast number of laws, legal cases, regulations, and policies to illustrate the social and political processes through which female virtue was defined, enforced, and contested. Along the way, she provides rich details of social life and cultural practices among ordinary Chinese people through narratives of criminal cases of sexual assault, harassment, adultery, and domestic violence.
517 3 $aPolitics of chastity in eighteenth-century China
517 3 $aChastity in 18th century China
606   $aChastity
606   $aWomen$zChina$xSocial conditions
607   $aChina$xSocial conditions$y1644-1912
610   $a18th century.
610   $aadultery.
610   $achastity cult.
610   $achastity shrines.
610   $achastity.
610   $achina.
610   $achinese history.
610   $achinese women.
610   $acriminals.
610   $adomestic violence.
610   $adomesticity.
610   $afemale chastity.
610   $afemale sexuality.
610   $afemale virtue.
610   $afemininity.
610   $afeminist law.
610   $afeminist theory.
610   $agender roles.
610   $agender studies.
610   $agender.
610   $ahagiography.
610   $aimperial china.
610   $aimperialism.
610   $ainnocent.
610   $ajustice system.
610   $alaws.
610   $alegal cases.
610   $alegal system.
610   $apolitics.
610   $apurity.
610   $aqing.
610   $arape.
610   $asexual assault.
610   $asexual harassment.
610   $asexual morality.
610   $asexual virtue.
610   $asuicide.
610   $awidows.
610   $awomen and the law.
610   $awomen.
610   $awomens studies.
615  0$aChastity.
615  0$aWomen$xSocial conditions.
676   $a176/.0951
700   $aTheiss$b Janet M.$f1964-$01687022
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