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Confucianism and Women

Author : Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791481794
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Confucianism and Women written by Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confucianism and Women argues that Confucian philosophy—often criticized as misogynistic and patriarchal—is not inherently sexist. Although historically bound up with oppressive practices, Confucianism contains much that can promote an ethic of gender parity. Attacks on Confucianism for gender oppression have marked China's modern period, beginning with the May Fourth Movement of 1919 and reaching prominence during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. The West has also readily characterized Confucianism as a foundation of Chinese women's oppression. Author Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee challenges readers to consider the culture within which Confucianism has functioned and to explore what Confucian thought might mean for women and feminism. She begins the work by clarifying the intellectual tradition of Confucianism and discussing the importance of the Confucian cultural categories yin-yang and nei-wai (inner-outer) for gender ethics. In addition, the Chinese tradition of biographies of virtuous women and books of instruction by and for women is shown to provide a Confucian construction of gender. Practices such as widow chastity, footbinding, and concubinage are discussed in light of Confucian ethics and Chinese history. Ultimately, Rosenlee lays a foundation for a future construction of Confucian feminism as an alternative ethical ground for women's liberation.

The Confucian Four Books for Women

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190460911
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Confucian Four Books for Women written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the first English translation of the Confucian classics, Four Books for Women, with extensive commentary by the compiler, Wang Xiang, and introductions and annotations by translator Ann A. Pang-White. Written by women for women's education, the Confucian Four Books for Women spanned the 1st to the 16th centuries, and encompass Ban Zhao's Lessons for Women, Song Ruoxin's and Song Ruozhao's Analects for Women, Empress Renxiaowen's Teachings for the Inner Court, and Madame Liu's (Chaste Widow Wang's) Short Records of Models for Women. A female counterpart to the famous Sishu (Four Books) compiled by Zhu Xi, Wang Xiang's Nü sishu provides an invaluable look at the long-standing history and evolution of Chinese women's writing, education, identity, and philosophical discourse, along with their struggles and triumphs, across the millennia and numerous Chinese dynasties. Pang-White's new translation brings the authors of the Four Books for Women to life as real, living people, and illustrates why they wrote and how their work empowered women.

Feminist Encounters with Confucius

Author : Mathew Foust
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004332111
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Encounters with Confucius written by Mathew Foust and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work builds on earlier works, which defend Confucianism against charges of sexism and present interpretations of Confucianism compatible with Feminism, but contributors go beyond the much discussed care ethics, and common arguments of how ren (humaneness) can ground an egalitarian humanism that include gender equality. Besides ethics and political philosophy topics, this volume includes discussions in other philosophical areas such as epistemology, metaphysics, and applied philosophy. Through the encounter of Feminism and Confucius’s perspectives, each contributor generates novel answers to the questions addressed. In some cases, authors raise new questions about the chosen topic, inadequacies in how it has been addressed in previous Confucian or Feminist discourse, and/or challenges for either or both Confucianism and Feminism.

Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue

Author : Jennifer McWeeny
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537212
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue by : Jennifer McWeeny

Download or read book Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue written by Jennifer McWeeny and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of original essays, international scholars put Asian traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism, into conversation with one or more contemporary feminist philosophies, founding a new mode of inquiry that attends to diverse voices and the complex global relationships that define our world. These cross-cultural meditations focus on the liberation of persons from suffering, oppression, illusion, harmful conventions and desires, and other impediments to full personhood by deploying a methodology that traverses multiple philosophical styles, historical texts, and frames of reference. Hailing from the discipline of philosophy in addition to Asian, gender, and religious studies, the contributors offer a fresh take on the classic concerns of free will, consciousness, knowledge, objectivity, sexual difference, embodiment, selfhood, the state, morality, and hermeneutics. One of the first anthologies to embody the practice of feminist comparative philosophy, this collection creatively and effectively engages with global, cultural, and gender differences within the realms of scholarly inquiry and theory construction.

The Birth of Chinese Feminism

Author : Lydia He Liu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023116291X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Chinese Feminism written by Lydia He Liu and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book repositions He-Yin Zhen as central to the development of feminism in China, juxtaposing her writing with fresh translations of works by two of her better-known male interlocutors. The editors begin with a detailed portrait of He-Yin Zhen's life and an analysis of her thought in comparative terms. They then present annotated translations of six of her major essays, as well as two foundational tracts by her male contemporaries, Jin Tianhe (1873-1947) and Liang Qichao (1873-1929), to which He-Yin's work responds and with which it engages. Jin Tianhe, a poet and educator, and Liang Qichao, a philosopher and journalist, understood feminism as a paternalistic cause that "enlightened" male intellectuals like themselves should defend. Zhen counters with an alternative conception of feminism that draws upon anarchism and other radical trends in thought.

Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China

Author : Kay Ann Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226401944
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China by : Kay Ann Johnson

Download or read book Women, the Family, and Peasant Revolution in China written by Kay Ann Johnson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kay Ann Johnson provides much-needed information about women and gender equality under Communist leadership. She contends that, although the Chinese Communist Party has always ostensibly favored women's rights and family reform, it has rarely pushed for such reforms. In reality, its policies often have reinforced the traditional role of women to further the Party's predominant economic and military aims. Johnson's primary focus is on reforms of marriage and family because traditional marriage, family, and kinship practices have had the greatest influence in defining and shaping women's place in Chinese society. Conversant with current theory in political science, anthropology, and Marxist and feminist analysis, Johnson writes with clarity and discernment free of dogma. Her discussions of family reform ultimately provide insights into the Chinese government's concern with decreasing the national birth rate, which has become a top priority. Johnson's predictions of a coming crisis in population control are borne out by the recent increase in female infanticide and the government abortion campaign.

The Renaissance of Confucianism in Contemporary China

Author : Ruiping Fan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400715420
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis The Renaissance of Confucianism in Contemporary China by : Ruiping Fan

Download or read book The Renaissance of Confucianism in Contemporary China written by Ruiping Fan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new generation of Confucian scholars is coming of age. China is reawakening to the power and importance of its own culture. This volume provides a unique view of the emerging Confucian vision for China and the world in the 21st century. Unlike the Neo-Confucians sojourning in North America who recast Confucianism in terms of modern Western values, this new generation of Chinese scholars takes the authentic roots of Confucian thought seriously. This collection of essays offers the first critical exploration in English of the emerging Confucian, non-liberal, non-social-democratic, moral and political vision for China’s future. Inspired by the life and scholarship of Jiang Qing who has emerged as China's exemplar contemporary Confucian, this volume allows the English reader access to a moral and cultural vision that seeks to direct China’s political power, social governance, and moral life. For those working in Chinese studies, this collection provides the first access in English to major debates in China concerning a Confucian reconceptualization of governance, a critical Confucian assessment of feminism, Confucianism functioning again as a religion, and the possibility of a moral vision that can fill the cultural vacuum created by the collapse of Marxism.

Confucian Feminism

Author : Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350426180
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Confucian Feminism written by Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Confucian Feminism Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee expands the theoretical horizons of feminism by using characteristic Confucian terms, methods, and concerns to interrogate the issue of gender oppression and liberation. With its theoretical roots in the Confucian textual tradition, this is the first re-imagining of Confucianism that enriches, and is enriched by, feminism. Incorporating distinctive Confucian conceptual tools such as ren (benevolent governance), xiao (filial care), you (friendship), li (ritual), and datong (great community), Rosenlee creates an ethic of care that is feminist and Confucian. At the same time she confronts the issue of gender inequity in Confucian thought. Her hybrid feminist theory not only broadens the range of feminist understandings of the roots of gender oppression, but opens up what we believe constitutes gender liberation for women transnationally and transculturally. Here is a practical ethic that uses Confucianism to navigate the contours of inequality in everyday life.

Confucianism in Context

Author : Wonsuk Chang
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438431929
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Confucianism in Context written by Wonsuk Chang and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Confucianism? This book provides a wide-ranging view of the tradition and its contemporary relevance for Western readers. Discussing the development of Confucianism in China, the work goes on to show the deep impact of Korean and Japanese cultures on Confucian thinking. A dialogic way of thought, highly sensitive to locations and conditions, Confucianism is shown to be a valuable philosophical resource for a multicultural, globalizing world. In addition to discussing Confucianism' unique responses to traditional philosophical problems, such as the nature of self and society, Confucianism in Context shows how Confucian philosophy can contribute to contemporary issues such as democracy, human rights, feminism, and ecology.

The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism

Author : Tani Barlow
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822332701
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism written by Tani Barlow and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVBarlow documents the history of “woman” as a category in twentieth century Chinese history, tracing the question of gender through various phases in the literary career of Ding Ling, a major modern Chinese writer./div

The Inner Quarters

Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520081587
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Inner Quarters written by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Opening up questions about women's lives, about gender, about why we read history at all and how we write it, Patricia Buckley Ebrey has made The Inner Quarters a place we need to enter."—from the Foreword

The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership

Author : R. A. W. Rhodes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199653887
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership by : R. A. W. Rhodes

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership written by R. A. W. Rhodes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political leadership has returned to the forefront of research in political science in recent years, after several years of neglect. This Handbook provides a broad-ranging and cohesive examination of the study of political leadership.

Transcultural Feminist Philosophy

Author : Yuanfang Dai
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498564828
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Transcultural Feminist Philosophy written by Yuanfang Dai and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of difference—how to accommodate the complexity and diversity of women’s experiences—remains a central point of reference in debates among feminist thinkers. In Transcultural Feminist Philosophy: Rethinking Difference and Solidarity Through Chinese-American Encounters, Yuanfang Dai addresses influential approaches to the feminist difference critique. Acknowledging that gender oppression assumes different forms in different social and cultural locations, Dai denies that this rules out generalizing about women’s experiences. She proposes a category of women that captures and respects differences and dynamics among women and that can inform possibilities for women in the future. Through a critical examination of multicultural and postcolonial feminisms, she argues that we need both to rethink the concept of culture and to rework multiculturalism as an analytical and political idea. Developing a notion of transculturalism, she draws on Chinese feminist scholarship as she explores how a transcultural approach can address tensions between cultural differences and feminist solidarity. Transcultural thought and action offers a new way to explore the conditions of women’s collective struggles.

Women’s Literary Feminism in Twentieth-Century China

Author : A. Dooling
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403978271
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Women’s Literary Feminism in Twentieth-Century China written by A. Dooling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-02-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a critical inquiry into the connections between emergent feminist ideologies in China and the production of 'modern' women's writing from the demise of the last imperial dynasty to the founding of the PRC. It accentuates both well-known and under-represented literary voices who intervened in the gender debates of their generation as well as contextualises the strategies used in imagining alternative stories of female experience and potential. It asks two questions: first, how did the advent of enlightened views of gender relations and sexuality influence literary practices of 'new women' in terms of narrative forms and strategies, readership, and publication venues? Second, how do these representations attest to the way these female intellectuals engaged and expanded social and political concerns from the personal to the national?

Sources of Chinese Tradition

Author : Wm. Theodore De Bary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231086028
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Sources of Chinese Tradition written by Wm. Theodore De Bary and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a chronological table of Chinese history beginning with 2852 B.C. up to A.D. 1849. In addition to presenting the major schools of classical philosophy, this volume discusses yin-yang theories of cosmology and geomancy and the rationale of monarchy and dynastic rule.

Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan

Author : Dorothy Ko
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520231382
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan written by Dorothy Ko and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-08-28 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between "Confucianisms" and "women."

Writing Women in Modern China

Author : Amy D. Dooling
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231107013
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Writing Women in Modern China written by Amy D. Dooling and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past few years have seen a burgeoning effort to rethink questions of women, writing, and gender in modern China. Here 22 works of fiction, drama, autobiography, essays, and poetry, each prefaced by the author's photograph and a short biographical sketch, introduce women whose literary careers coincided with an era of tremendous social, political, and cultural turbulence. 18 illustrations.