"Traditional" Chinese Women

I. Some changes in grading

A. One oral presentation

optional second presentation?

B. Three chapter outlines [1 in each area]

II. What is "tradition?" Whose "tradition?"

A. Confucianism

the five relationships

ruler - subject

parent - child

husband - wife

older - younger sibling

friend - friend

Neo-Confucianism in the Sung dynasty

Empress Wu

property rights

foot-binding

filial piety, ancestor rites and boys

chastity, widows and divorce

tradition and the way we never were

Female genealogies and female lines

B. Taoism and egalitarianism

yin-yang, the "obscure female" and "eternal mother"

spontaneity and individualism

secret societies and seniority

Chinese medicine and the female body

shamanic women

C. Buddhism and monasticism

reincarnation and gender

individual salvation and spiritual equality

the vegetarian halls

marriage resistance as a women's movement

other alternate networks

D. Regionalism in China

E. Class, lifestyles and philosophies

F. Patriarchal families and matriarchs

daughters: guest children

concubines and childlessness

husband and wife share seniority

mothers-in-law

longevity as victory

III. China under the Manchus

A. The Mandate of Heaven

foreign rulers

filial piety and the Emperor's heir

harem v. bureaucracy

B. Manchu women

BIG FEET!!!!!!!

education and independence

the warrior's woman model and sinification

snobbery and elite Chinese women

Ci Xi: the last Empress

C. Women in the last days of the Xing dynasty

opium and imperialism

social/economic breakdown in Sn. China

women as heads of households

increased secret society activities

Christianity and women

deliberate campaigns

female infanticide

footbinding

child marriages

polygamy and concubinage

[ignoring similar Chinese campaigns]

related effects

education and the mission schools

Bible women and widows

accidental byproducts

the Taipings, 1850-1867

role models

overseas education as an option

the new capitalists, the west and daughters