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Confucianism and Women: A Philosophical Interpretation

Confucianism and Women: A Philosophical Interpretation

Rosenlee, Li-Hsiang Lisa

Paperback

Series: Suny Chinese Philosophy and Culture

ConfucianismGeneral Eastern ReligionsWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0791467503
ISBN13: 9780791467503
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jun 1 2007
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.55 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

Challenges accepted beliefs that Confucianism is a cause of women's oppression and explores Confucianism as an ethical system compatible with gender parity.

Confucianism and Women argues that Confucian philosophy-often criticized as misogynistic and patriarchal-is not inherently sexist. Although historically bound up with oppressive practices, Confucianism contains much that can promote an ethic of gender parity. Attacks on Confucianism for gender oppression have marked China's modern period, beginning with the May Fourth Movement of 1919 and reaching prominence during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. The West has also readily characterized Confucianism as a foundation of Chinese women's oppression. Author Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee challenges readers to consider the culture within which Confucianism has functioned and to explore what Confucian thought might mean for women and feminism.

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