The precious raft of history
Subtitle: the past, the West, and the woman question in China
By: Joan Judge.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780804755894
Subjects: Women -- China -- Social conditions -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: women and temporality; title: The regime of feminine virtue; title: Chaste women : sacred, praiseworthy, or misguided; title: Public women : licentious or evolved; title: History, nation, and female talent; title: Women of talent : valorized and repudiated; title: Wise mothers and mothers of citizens; title: New global hierarchies of female heroism; title: The Chinese woman warrior and the Western heroine; title: The new-style heroine and the paradoxes of feminine time; title: Conclusion : from the turn of the twentieth century to the turn of the twenty-first.