Women and Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea
Subtitle: new perspectives
By: edited by Youngmin Kim and Michael J. Pettid
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781438437750
Subjects: Social life and customs; Women in Confucianism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-162) and index.
Table of contents: title: Portrait of two women : multiple layers of "Confucianism" in late Chosŏn Korea / Youngmin Kim; title: The exemplar wife : the life of Lady Chang of Andong in historical context / Lee Soongu; title: Confucian educational works for upper status women in Chosŏn Korea / Michael J. Pettid; title: Neo-Confucianism as free-floating resource : Im Yunjidang and Kang Chŏngildang as two female neo-Confucian philosophers in late Chosŏn / Youngmin Kim; title: The rights of the eldest daughter-in-law and strengthening of adoption of lineage heirs in the mid-Chosŏn period / Lee Soongu; title: Questions concerning widows' social status and remarriage in late Chosŏn / Jung Ji-Young; title: Devalued bodies, revalued status : Confucianism and the plight of female slaves in late Chosŏn Korea / Milan Hejtmanek.