Women in Tang/Song Society
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Women in Tang/Song Society
Analects for Women
• Who wrote this?
Analects for Women
• Who wrote this?• Restriction and Confinement?
Analects for Women
• Who wrote this?• Restriction and Confinement?• Obedience?
Analects for Women
• Who wrote this?• Restriction and Confinement?• Obedience?• Sons and Daughters?
Analects for Women
• Who wrote this?• Restriction and Confinement?• Obedience?• Sons and Daughters?• Ettiquette?
Analects for Women
• Who wrote this?• Restriction and Confinement?• Obedience?• Sons and Daughters?• Ettiquette?• Women’s Work?
Analects for Women
• Who wrote this?• Restriction and Confinement?• Obedience?• Sons and Daughters?• Ettiquette?• Women’s Work?• Lazy Women?
Analects for Women
• Who wrote this?• Restriction and Confinement?• Obedience?• Sons and Daughters?• Ettiquette?• Women’s Work?• Lazy Women?• Ideal Women?
Decline of Women’s Status from Tang to Song
• Examples
Decline of Women’s Status from Tang to Song
• Examples• Decline of Buddhism– Gender Ideology– Monastic Opportunities
Decline of Women’s Status from Tang to Song
• Examples• Decline of Buddhism– Gender Ideology– Monastic Opportunities
• Neo-Confucian Ideas– Harmony through Hierarchy– Revived Patriarchal restrictions and submissive ideal– “The boy leads the girl, the girl follows the boy; the duty of
husbands to be resolute and wives to be docile begins with this.”
• Commercializing Economy
Footbinding
• What is Footbinding?
Footbinding
• What is Footbinding?– Origins– Rise in Song– Importance for Marriage
Footbinding
• What is Footbinding?– Origins– Rise in Song– Importance for Marriage
• Role of Mothers
Footbinding
• What is Footbinding?– Origins– Rise in Song– Importance for Marriage
• Role of Mothers• Relation to Neo-Confucian Ideology?
Footbinding
• What is Footbinding?– Origins– Rise in Song– Importance for Marriage
• Role of Mothers• Relation to Neo-Confucian Ideology?• Class Basis?
Footbinding
• What is Footbinding?– Origins– Rise in Song– Importance for Marriage
• Role of Mothers• Relation to Neo-Confucian Ideology?• Class Basis?• Our culture?
Footbinding
• What is Footbinding?– Origins– Rise in Song– Importance for Marriage
• Role of Mothers• Relation to Neo-Confucian Ideology?• Class Basis?• Our culture?