Disgraceful matters [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China / / Janet M. Theiss
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| Autore: |
Theiss Janet M. <1964->
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| Titolo: |
Disgraceful matters [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China / / Janet M. Theiss
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 176/.0951 |
| Soggetto topico: | Chastity |
| Women - China - Social conditions | |
| Soggetto geografico: | China Social conditions 1644-1912 |
| Soggetto non controllato: | 18th century |
| adultery | |
| chastity cult | |
| chastity shrines | |
| chastity | |
| china | |
| chinese history | |
| chinese women | |
| criminals | |
| domestic violence | |
| domesticity | |
| female chastity | |
| female sexuality | |
| female virtue | |
| femininity | |
| feminist law | |
| feminist theory | |
| gender roles | |
| gender studies | |
| gender | |
| hagiography | |
| imperial china | |
| imperialism | |
| innocent | |
| justice system | |
| laws | |
| legal cases | |
| legal system | |
| politics | |
| purity | |
| qing | |
| rape | |
| sexual assault | |
| sexual harassment | |
| sexual morality | |
| sexual virtue | |
| suicide | |
| widows | |
| women and the law | |
| women | |
| womens studies | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-274) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- PART ONE: The Chastening State: The Qing Chastity Cult in Ritual, Law, and Statecraft -- Prologue: A Chaste Barbarian Martyrs Herself on the Imperial Frontier -- 1. Defining Gender Orthodoxy for a Multiethnic Empire -- 2. Statecraft and Gender Order in the Qianlong Reign -- PART TWO: Female Virtue and the Politics of Patriarchy -- Prologue: A Righteous Husband Plays the Politics of the Wifely Way -- 3. Enforcing Gender Order: Between the Ancestral Hall and the Yamen -- 4. Divided Loyalties: Natal Families and the Exercise of Patrilineal Authority -- 5. Adultery, Incest and the Multiple Meanings of Patriarchy -- PART THREE: Mapping Chastity across Boundaries of Body, Mind, and Space -- Prologue: A Compromised Widow Sacrifices Her Body to Defend Inner Virtue -- 6. The Wages of Wanton Mixing: Violation and Gender Disorder -- 7. "Accommodating Sages": Gender Separation in Social Practice -- PART FOUR: "Being a Person": Female Humiliation and Social Power -- Prologue: Male Impropriety and Female Outrage Lead to a Tragic End -- 8. The Problem of Female Moral Agency -- 9. The Logic of Female Suicide -- Epilogue |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Looking 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China |
| Chastity in 18th century China | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Disgraceful matters |
| ISBN: | 0-520-93066-5 |
| 1-59734-581-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783316403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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