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9780520240339

Disgraceful Matters

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520240339

  • ISBN10:

    0520240332

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-01-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
A Note on Textual Conventions xiii
A Note on Dynasties and Reigns xv
Introduction 1(16)
PART ONE The Chastening State: The Qing Chastity Cult in Ritual, Law, and Statecraft
Prologue: A Chaste Barbarian Martyrs Herself on the Imperial Frontier
17(8)
1. Defining Gender Orthodoxy for a Multiethnic Empire
25(14)
2. Statecraft and Gender Order in the Qianlong Reign
39(18)
PART TWO Female Virtue and the Politics of Patriarchy
Prologue: A Righteous Husband Plays the Politics of the Wifely Way
57(8)
3. Enforcing Gender Order: Between the Ancestral Hall and the Yamen
65(17)
4. Divided Loyalties: Natal Families and the Exercise of Patrilineal Authority
82(16)
5. Adultery, Incest and the Multiple Meanings of Patriarchy
98(23)
PART THREE Mapping Chastity across Boundaries of Body, Mind, and Space
Prologue: A Compromised Widow Sacrifices Her Body to Defend Inner Virtue
121(12)
6. The Wages of Wanton Mixing: Violation and Gender Disorder
133(21)
7. "Accommodating Sages": Gender Separation in Social Practice
154(13)
PART FOUR "Being a Person": Female Humiliation and Social Power
Prologue: Male Impropriety and Female Outrage Lead to a Tragic End
167(10)
8. The Problem of Female Moral Agency
177(15)
9. The Logic of Female Suicide
192(19)
Epilogue 211(8)
Notes 219(40)
A Note on Archival Sources 259(2)
Character List 261(4)
Bibliography 265(10)
Index 275

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