{"product_id":"teachers-of-the-inner-chambers-women-and-culture-in-seventeenthcentury-china-9780804723596","title":"Teachers of the Inner Chambers Women and Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work reveals the existence of a previously unknown stratum of literate women among the urban gentry in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ko challenges simplistic depictions of women as victims and argues that within their social and cultural constraints, a women's literary culture developed that transcended public and private spheres and redefined womanhood. . . . This multifaceted book is a breakthrough in the study of women as part of Chinese cultural and social history.\"—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: gender and the politics of Chinese history  Part I. Social and Private Histories: 1. In the floating world: women and commercial publishing  2. The enchantment of love in The Poetry Pavilion  Part II. Womanhood: 3. Margins of domesticity: enlarging the women's sphere  4. Talent, virtue, and beauty: rewriting womanhood  Part III. Women's culture: 5. Domestic communities: male and female domains  6. Social and public communities: genealogies across time and space  7. Transitory communities: courtesan, wife, and professional artist  Epilogue  Reference matter  Notes  Index.","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405478830423,"sku":"9780804723596","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/teachers-of-the-inner-chambers-women-and-culture-in-seventeenthcentury-china-9780804723596","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}