Women and Gender in Chinese History: A Series on Women and Gender Studies

Author: Du Fangqin
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book represents an early and serious exploration by historians, folklorists, and archaeologists into the field of women's/gender history. In tracing the history of women and social gender, women remain at the center, but it abandons the linear model of "freedom-oppression-liberation" and the simplistic judgment of women's status in previous women's history writing. It also breaks free from the stereotype of women being solely confined to the realm of family and marriage. Instead, it examines the impact of the historical transformation of the gender system's construction on women and gender relationships, exploring the changes and continuities in the long historical process of the Chinese nation from prehistory to modern times. It reveals the unique manifestations of gender relationships and women's characteristics at multiple levels. Numerous new perspectives, analytical approaches, and historical scenes are revealed and presented throughout the book, giving readers a fresh and eye-opening experience: history turns out to be so vivid and diverse!