This course will provide for an examination of women’s life and women’s roles within Chinese family from antiquity to the modern period. Viewing gender as a historical category in analyzing changes of Chinese society and culture, the course will cover the following topics: property and inheritance between men and women; household economies; marriage; divorce and maternal roles; reproduction, fertility and infanticide; female chastity and Confucian ritual-propriety; and women’s social networking and the formation of sisterhood.
Cross Listed Courses
Same as
IS 372