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Disgraceful matters [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China / / Janet M. Theiss
| Disgraceful matters [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China / / Janet M. Theiss |
| Autore | Theiss Janet M. <1964-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
| Disciplina | 176/.0951 |
| Soggetto topico |
Chastity
Women - China - Social conditions |
| 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 |
| ISBN |
0-520-93066-5
1-59734-581-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Altri titoli varianti |
Politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China
Chastity in 18th century China |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783316403321 |
Theiss Janet M. <1964->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Disgraceful matters : the politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China / / Janet M. Theiss
| Disgraceful matters : the politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China / / Janet M. Theiss |
| Autore | Theiss Janet M. <1964-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
| Disciplina | 176/.0951 |
| Soggetto topico |
Chastity
Women - China - Social conditions |
| 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 |
| ISBN |
0-520-93066-5
1-59734-581-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Altri titoli varianti |
Politics of chastity in eighteenth-century China
Chastity in 18th century China |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807870003321 |
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Theiss Janet M. <1964->
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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