TY - BOOK ID - 77860728 TI - Women and Confucian cultures in premodern China, Korea, and Japan AU - Ko, Dorothy AU - Haboush, JaHyun Kim AU - Piggott, Joan R PY - 2003 SN - 1598750127 1280092203 0520927826 9786613520371 9780520927827 1417522607 9781417522606 9781598750126 0520231058 9780520231054 0520231384 9780520231382 9781280092206 6613520373 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Women KW - Confucianism KW - Religions KW - History. KW - Social aspects. KW - Women - China - History KW - Women - Japan - History KW - Women - Korea - History KW - Confucianism - Social aspects KW - 19th century. KW - academic. KW - asia. KW - confucianism. KW - confucius. KW - construct. KW - contemporary. KW - cultural history. KW - cultural studies. KW - east asia. KW - east asian culture. KW - europe. KW - feminism. KW - feminist. KW - international. KW - modern world. KW - oppression. KW - scholarly. KW - scholarship. KW - social history. KW - social studies. KW - united states. KW - victims. KW - womens issues. KW - womens studies. KW - world history. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77860728 AB - Representing an unprecedented collaboration among international scholars from Asia, Europe, and the United States, this volume rewrites the history of East Asia by rethinking the contentious relationship between Confucianism and women. The authors discuss the absence of women in the Confucian canonical tradition and examine the presence of women in politics, family, education, and art in premodern China, Korea, and Japan. What emerges is a concept of Confucianism that is dynamic instead of monolithic in shaping the cultures of East Asian societies. As teachers, mothers, writers, and rulers, women were active agents in this process. Neither rebels nor victims, these women embraced aspects of official norms while resisting others. The essays present a powerful image of what it meant to be female and to live a woman's life in a variety of social settings and historical circumstances. Challenging the conventional notion of Confucianism as an oppressive tradition that victimized women, this provocative book reveals it as a modern construct that does not reflect the social and cultural histories of East Asia before the nineteenth century. ER -