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Technology and gender: fabrics of power in late imperial China

Bray, Francesca.

Year: c1997.

Publisher: University of California Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

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

Rus in 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, Nuture 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

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Title:

Technology and gender : fabrics of power in late imperial China Francesca Bray.

Author:

Bray, Francesca

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Technology and gender : fabrics of power in late imperial China Francesca Bray.
Bray, Francesca
Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997.

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Subject Headings:

• Women -- China -- Social conditions
• Technology -- Social aspects -- China -- History
• Sex role -- China -- History
• China -- Social conditions -- 960-1644
• China -- Social conditions -- 1644-1912

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