Crossing the Gate : Everyday Lives of Women in Song Fujian (960-1279) / Man Xu ; Roger T. Ames, editor.

By:

Xu, Man, 1979- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Ames, Roger T, 1947- [editor.]

Material type:

TextSeries: SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culturePublisher: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2016]Description: x, 357 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:

still image

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781438443214

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Crossing the GateDDC classification:

305.4095 XU 23

LOC classification:

HQ1147.C6

Scope and content: "Challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. In Crossing the Gate, Man Xu examines the lives of women in the Chinese province of Fujian during the Song dynasty. Tracking women's life experience across class lines, outside as well as inside the domestic realm, Xu challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. She contextualizes women in a much broader physical space and social network, investigating the gaps between ideals and reality and examining women's own agency in gender construction. She argues that women's autonomy and mobility, conventionally attributed to Ming-Qing women of late imperial China, can be traced to the Song era. This thorough study of Song women's life experience connects women to the great political, economic, and social transitions of the time, and sheds light on the so-called 'Song-Yuan-Ming transition' from the perspective of gender studies. By putting women at the center of analysis and by focusing on the local and the quotidian, Crossing the Gate offers a new and nuanced picture of the Song Confucian revival"--From publisher's website.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Barcode
Books	CamTech Library	General Collections	305.9095 XU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C.1	Available	0000002921

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. In Crossing the Gate, Man Xu examines the lives of women in the Chinese province of Fujian during the Song dynasty. Tracking women's life experience across class lines, outside as well as inside the domestic realm, Xu challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. She contextualizes women in a much broader physical space and social network, investigating the gaps between ideals and reality and examining women's own agency in gender construction. She argues that women's autonomy and mobility, conventionally attributed to Ming-Qing women of late imperial China, can be traced to the Song era. This thorough study of Song women's life experience connects women to the great political, economic, and social transitions of the time, and sheds light on the so-called 'Song-Yuan-Ming transition' from the perspective of gender studies. By putting women at the center of analysis and by focusing on the local and the quotidian, Crossing the Gate offers a new and nuanced picture of the Song Confucian revival"--From publisher's website.

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