Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 419 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780520919006
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0520919009
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0585104336
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9780585104331
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9780520206854
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0520206851
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9780520208612
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0520208617
Inhalt:
In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were imprisoned in the inner quarters, deprived of freedom and dignity, and so physically and morally deformed by footbinding and the tyrannies of patriarchy that they were incapable of productive work. She propose
Anmerkung:
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-409) and index
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List of Chinese Dynasties -- Introduction: The Framework of Everyday Life: Technology, Women and Cultural History -- pt. 1. Building a Tradition: The Construction of Chinese Social Space. 1. House Form and Meaning. 2. Encoding Patriarchy. 3. The Text of the Chinese House -- pt. 2. Women's Work: Weaving New Patterns in the Social Fabric. 4. Fabrics of Power: The Canonical Meanings of Women's Work. 5. Economic Expansion and Changing Division of Labor. 6. Women's Work and Women's Place -- pt. 3. Meanings of Motherhood: Reproductive Technologies and Their Uses. 7. Medical History and Gender History. 8. Reproductive Medicine and the Dual Nature of Fertility. 9. Reproductive Hierarchies. Conclusion: Gynotechnics and Civilization.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bray, Francesca Technology and gender Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997 ISBN 0520206851
Sprache:
Englisch
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