Disgraceful Matters
Janet Theiss
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University of California Press
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Regional- und Ländergeschichte
Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
domesticity, hagiography, female virtue, china, purity, sexual morality, suicide, legal system, laws, widows, chinese history, gender studies, imperialism, feminist law, women, chastity shrines, qing, adultery, chastity, sexual harassment, politics, legal cases, female chastity, gender roles, rape, imperial china, sexual virtue, women and the law, chinese women, innocent, womens studies, sexual assault, domestic violence, feminist theory, criminals, justice system, femininity, gender, female sexuality, 18th century, chastity cult