Women Gender and Sexuality in China: A Brief History serves as a focal textbook for undergraduate courses on women gender and sexuality in Chinese history. Thematically structured it surveys important aspects of gender systems and gender practices throughout Chinese history from the earliest period to the modern era. Topics include the concept of yin-yang life course and gender roles kinship systems and family structure marriage practices sexuality women’s work and daily life as well as gender in Chinese mythology religions medicine art and literature. In narrating how various traditions and practices were formed and evolved throughout Chinese history this textbook draws heavily on personal stories and historical records. Features in this textbook include: Primary source sections for each chapter introducing students to types of documents that have been used by scholars in conducting research Thirty-three translated texts of various genres including epitaph bronze inscription medical text imperial edict legal case family letter ghost story divorce paper poetry autobiography etc. Dedicated biography sections for five distinguished women Offering richly layered accounts of women gender and sexuality this textbook is essential reading for students of Chinese history gender in world history or the comparative history of gender. |Women Gender and Sexuality in China A Brief History | Asian Studies
