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Bray, Francesca

 
9780520208612: Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520208617 ISBN 13: 9780520208612
Verlag: University of California Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Francesca Bray is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of The Rice Economies: Technology and Development in Asian Societies (California, 1994).

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"This elegant book embeds questions about gender in the history of material life, revealing still more of China's rich historical record on gender relations."—Susan Mann, author of Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950

"Francesca Bray is exactly the kind of sinologist needed by cultural and social historians working throughout the world. Her book is both ambitious and accessible, making creative and discriminating use of cross-cultural comparison and social theory yet maintaining a sharp focus on concrete detail. For anyone interested in the history of everyday life or the history of material cuture, this is the book on China to read."—Peter Burke, author of Historical and Social Theory

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"This elegant book embeds questions about gender in the history of material life, revealing still more of China's rich historical record on gender relations." Susan Mann, author of Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950

"Francesca Bray is exactly the kind of sinologist needed by cultural and social historians working throughout the world. Her book is both ambitious and accessible, making creative and discriminating use of cross-cultural comparison and social theory yet maintaining a sharp focus on concrete detail. For anyone interested in the history of everyday life or the history of material cuture, this is the book on China to read." Peter Burke, author of Historical and Social Theory

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520208617
ISBN 13 
9780520208612
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
436
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