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Women as Writing Subjects in High Qing China: Reconfiguring the Poetics of Feminine Propriety
Women as Writing Subjects in High Qing China: Reconfiguring the Poetics of Feminine Propriety

Women as Writing Subjects in High Qing China: Reconfiguring the Poetics of Feminine Propriety in Bloomington, MN

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In what ways did Qing gentry women’s concern for gender and social propriety shape their assertions of female subjectivity and agency? How did they exploit the state promotion of female virtue and Confucian morality for self-fulfillment? With a focus on three of the most widely acclaimed mid-Qing women authors, this book uses both synchronic and diachronic approaches to analyze writings on conjugal love, widowhood, women’s education, maternal teaching, boudoir objects, and history, illustrating their vibrant, gendered revision of literati poetic convention, thus proposing an alternative analytical framework that goes beyond the rigid dichotomy of compliance versus resistance.
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