Technology and gender : fabrics of power in late imperial China

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Technology and gender : fabrics of power in late imperial China

Francesca Bray

University of California Press, c1997

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  • : pbk

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"A Philip E. Lilienthal book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-409) and index

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巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9780520206854

内容説明

In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, the author 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 patriachy that they were incapable of productive work. She proposes a concept of "gynotechnics", a set of everyday technologies that define women's roles, as a creative new way to explore how societies translate moral and social principles into a web of material forms and bodily practices. This work examines three different aspects of domestic life in China, tracing their developments from 1000 to 1800 AD. It begins with the shell of domesticity, the house, focusing on how domestic space embodied hierachies of gender. The text follows the shift in the textile industry from domestic production to commercial production. Despite increasing emphasis on women's reproductive roles, the author argues, this cannot be reduced to childbearing. Female hierachies within the family reinforced the power of wiv
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780520208612

内容説明

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 proposes a concept of gynotechnics, a set of everyday technologies that define women's roles, as a creative new way to explore how societies translate moral and social principles into a web of material forms and bodily practices. Bray examines three different aspects of domestic life in China, tracing their developments from 1000 to 1800 A.D. She begins with the shell of domesticity, the house, focusing on how domestic space embodied hierarchies of gender. She follows the shift in the textile industry from domestic production to commercial production. Despite increasing emphasis on women's reproductive roles, she argues, this cannot be reduced to childbearing. Female hierarchies within the family reinforced the power of wives, whose responsibilities included ritual activities and financial management as well as the education of children.

目次

List of Illustrations and Table List of Chinese Dynasties Acknowledgments Introduction: The Framework of Everyday Life: Technology, Women and Cultural History PART ONE / BUILDING A TRADITION: THE CONSTRUCTION OF CHINESE SOCIAL SPACE 1 House Form and Meaning Spaces and Sources The House in Late Imperial China: Material Design Some Aesthetics of House Design Rusin Domo The Convergence of Architecture 2 Encoding Patriarchy A Walled Domain A Moral Building Block The Heart of the House: Altar and Stove Continuing the Family Line: The Coffin and the Bed Inner Divisions: Marking the Moral Order 3 The Text of the Chinese House Writing the Text Textual Experts PART TWO / WOMEN'S WORK: WEAVING NEW PATTERNS IN THE SOCIAL FABRIC 4 Fabrics of Power: The Canonical Meanings of Women's Work The Concept of "Womanly Work": Women as Subjects Cloth and Society Medieval Divisions of Labor and the Value of Female Work 5 Economic Expansion and Changing Divisions of Labor Wealth, Fashion and a New Elite: Changes in the Song Silk Industry The Cotton Boom Silk Production in the Ming and Qing 6 Women's Work and Women's Place Skills, Knowledge and Status Womanly Virtue and the Preservation of the Social Order Women's Work and Family Status Connection and Seclusion: Cloth and the Separation of Spheres Women's Work and Patriarchy PART THREE / MEANINGS OF MOTHERHOOD: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR USES 7 Medical History and Gender History Through a Glass Darkly: The Question of Efficacy What is a Body? Physicians, Orthodoxy and Power Case Histories: Whose Voices? 8 Reproductive Medicine and the Dual Nature of Fertility Generation in Medical Theory Orthodox Uses of Abortion Menstrual Regulation, Fertility and Health: A Dual Image of Womanhood 9 Reproductive Hierarchies Children: A Qualified Blessing Nature, Nurture and the Bond between Mother and Child Maternal Doubles: Wives, Concubines and Maids The Wifely Role Conclusion: Gynotechnics and Civilization Glossary of Technical Terms References Cited Index List of Illustrations

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