Disgraceful Matters: The Politics of Chastity in Eighteenth-Century China

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University of California Press, 2005年1月10日 - 296 頁
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.

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A Chaste Barbarian Martyrs Herself on the Imperial Frontier
13
Defining Gender Orthodoxy for a Multiethnic Empire
21
Statecraft and Gender Order in the Qianlong Reign
35
Female Virtue and the Politics of Patriarchy
51
A Righteous Husband Plays the Politics of the Wifely Way
53
Enforcing Gender Order Between the Ancestral Hall and the Yamen
61
Divided Loyalties Natal Families and the Exercise of Patrilineal Authority
78
Adultery Incest and the Multiple Meanings of Patriarchy
94
Being a Person Female Humiliation and Social Power
161
Male Impropriety and Female Outrage Lead to a Tragic End
163
The Problem of Female Moral Agency
173
The Logic of Female Suicide
188
Epilogue
207
Notes
215
A Note on Archival Sources
255
Character List
257

Mapping Chastity across Boundaries of Body Mind and Space
115
A Compromised Widow Sacrifices Her Body to Defend Inner Virtue
117
The Wages of Wanton Mixing Violation and Gender Disorder
129
Accommodating Sages Gender Separation in Social Practice
150
Bibliography
261
Index
271
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第 140 頁 - You are you, and I am I. Although you stand by my side with breast and arms bare, or with your body naked, how can you defile me?

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Janet M. Theiss is Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah.

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