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

Published Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps Series SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 06/29/2022) Subject Women -- China -- History -- To 1500 Women -- China -- Fujian Sheng -- History -- To 1500 Sex role -- China -- Fujian Sheng -- History -- To 1500 Social classes -- China -- Fujian Sheng -- History -- To 1500 Social change -- China -- Fujian Sheng -- History -- To 1500 Manners and customs Sex role Social change Social classes Social conditions Song Dynasty (China) Women SUBJECT Fujian Sheng (China) -- Social life and customs Fujian Sheng (China) -- Social conditions China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024066 Subject China China -- Fujian Sheng Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Ames, Roger T., 1947- editor. LC no. 2016023269 ISBN 9781438463223 1438463227

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