Crossing the gate : everyday lives of women in Song Fujian (960-1279)
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Crossing the gate : everyday lives of women in Song Fujian (960-1279) / Man Xu. |
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| Main author: | Xu, Man, 1979- (Author) |
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Table of Contents:
- I. Gates in and out of the Jia
- House gate (men) and lane gate (lü)
- Middle gate (zhong men)
- Gate titles for mothers
- II. Women on journeys
- Vehicles
- Traces
- III. Women in local communities
- Inner affairs (Nei Shi) and outer affairs (Wai Shi)
- Women and household economy
- IV. Women and local welfare
- Women and public projects
- Women and local governments
- Women's participation in local administration
- Women and governmental structures
- Women and lawsuits
- Women under the administration of local governments
- Gender consideration in local governments public projects
- V. Women and religion
- Laywomen in Confucian eyes
- Personal practices
- Religious communication with relatives and outsiders
- Religious excursions
- Buddhist funeral
- VI. Women and burial
- Tomb structure: from single-chamber to multi-chamber
- Joint burial: partition wall and passageway
- From inner/outer to left/right
- The problem of one man, many wives
- Funerary accessories from seven multi-chamber tombs
- Late Southern Song tombs
- Mural tombs
- Epilogue.