Women and Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea : new perspectives

Women and Confucianism in Chosŏn Korea : new perspectives / edited by Youngmin Kim and Michael J. Pettid.

This volume offers a fresh, multifaceted exploration of women and Confucianism in mid- to late-Chosoán Korea (mid-sixteenth to early twentieth century). Using primary sources and perspectives from social history, intellectual history, literature, and political thought, contributors challenge unitary...

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Other Authors: Kim, Youngmin, Pettid, Michael J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
1392-1910
Women in Confucianism > Korea > History.
RELIGION > Confucianism.
Manners and customs
Women in Confucianism
Korea > Social life and customs > 1392-1910.
Korea
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Portrait of two women : multiple layers of "Confucianism" in late Chosŏn Korea / Youngmin Kim
  • The life of the exemplar wife Lady Chang of Andong : examined in a historical context / Lee Soongu
  • Confucian educational works for upper status women in Chosŏn Korea / Michael J. Pettid
  • Neo-Confucianism as free-floating resource : Im Yunjidang and Kang Chongildang as two female neo-Confucian philosophers in late Chosŏn / Youngmin Kim
  • The rights of the eldest daughter-in-law and strengthening of adoption of lineage heirs in the mid-Chosŏn period / Lee Soongu
  • Questions concerning widows' social status and remarriage in late Chosŏn / Jung Ji-Young
  • Devalued bodies, revalued status : Confucianism and the plight of female slaves in late Chosŏn Korea / Milan Hejtmanek.

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