Free Download Shu Yang, "Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China"
English | ISBN: 1501770616 | 2023 | 252 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Untamed Shrews traces the evolution of unruly women in Chinese literature, from the reviled "shrew" to the celebrated "new woman." Notorious for her violence, jealousy, and promiscuity, the character of the shrew personified the threat of unruly femininity to the Confucian social order and served as a justification for punishing any woman exhibiting these qualities. In this book, Shu Yang connects these shrewish qualities to symbols of female empowerment in modern China.
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