Women in Tang/Song Society

Analects for Women

• Who wrote this?

Analects for Women

• Who wrote this?• Restriction and Confinement?

Analects for Women

• Who wrote this?• Restriction and Confinement?• Obedience?

Analects for Women

• Who wrote this?• Restriction and Confinement?• Obedience?• Sons and Daughters?

Analects for Women

• Who wrote this?• Restriction and Confinement?• Obedience?• Sons and Daughters?• Ettiquette?

Analects for Women

• Who wrote this?• Restriction and Confinement?• Obedience?• Sons and Daughters?• Ettiquette?• Women’s Work?

Analects for Women

• Who wrote this?• Restriction and Confinement?• Obedience?• Sons and Daughters?• Ettiquette?• Women’s Work?• Lazy Women?

Analects for Women

• Who wrote this?• Restriction and Confinement?• Obedience?• Sons and Daughters?• Ettiquette?• Women’s Work?• Lazy Women?• Ideal Women?

Decline of Women’s Status from Tang to Song

• Examples

Decline of Women’s Status from Tang to Song

• Examples• Decline of Buddhism– Gender Ideology– Monastic Opportunities

Decline of Women’s Status from Tang to Song

• Examples• Decline of Buddhism– Gender Ideology– Monastic Opportunities

• Neo-Confucian Ideas– Harmony through Hierarchy– Revived Patriarchal restrictions and submissive ideal– “The boy leads the girl, the girl follows the boy; the duty of

husbands to be resolute and wives to be docile begins with this.”

• Commercializing Economy

Footbinding

• What is Footbinding?

Footbinding

• What is Footbinding?– Origins– Rise in Song– Importance for Marriage

Footbinding

• What is Footbinding?– Origins– Rise in Song– Importance for Marriage

• Role of Mothers

Footbinding

• What is Footbinding?– Origins– Rise in Song– Importance for Marriage

• Role of Mothers• Relation to Neo-Confucian Ideology?

Footbinding

• What is Footbinding?– Origins– Rise in Song– Importance for Marriage

• Role of Mothers• Relation to Neo-Confucian Ideology?• Class Basis?

Footbinding

• What is Footbinding?– Origins– Rise in Song– Importance for Marriage

• Role of Mothers• Relation to Neo-Confucian Ideology?• Class Basis?• Our culture?

Footbinding

• What is Footbinding?– Origins– Rise in Song– Importance for Marriage

• Role of Mothers• Relation to Neo-Confucian Ideology?• Class Basis?• Our culture?