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Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China Book

Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China
Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China, 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 , Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China has a rating of 3.5 stars
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  • Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China
  • Written by author Francesca Bray
  • Published by University of California Press, July 1997
  • 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
  • "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"Fran
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List of Illustrations and Table
List of Chinese Dynasties
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Framework of Everyday Life: Technology, Women and Cultural History1
Pt. 1Building a Tradition: The Construction of Chinese Social Space49
1House Form and Meaning59
2Encoding Patriarchy91
3The Text of the Chinese House151
Pt. 2Women's Work: Weaving New Patterns in the Social Fabric173
4Fabrics of Power: The Canonical Meanings of Women's Work183
5Economic Expansion and Changing Division of Labor206
6Women's Work and Women's Place237
Pt. 3Meanings of Motherhood: Reproductive Technologies and Their Uses273
7Medical History and Gender History283
8Reproductive Medicine and the Dual Nature of Fertility317
9Reproductive Hierarchies335
Conclusion: Gynotechnics and Civilization369
Glossary of Technical Terms381
References Cited387
Index411


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