Teachers of the Inner Chambers
, by Ko, DorothyNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780804723596 | 0804723591
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/1/1994
Rejecting both popular image and accepted Western and Chinese scholarship on the status of women in premodern China, this pathbreaking work argues that literate gentrywomen in seventeenth-century Jiangnan were far from being oppressed or silenced. The author reconstructs the social, emotional, and intellectual worlds of these women from the interstices between ideology, practice, and self-perception.