(Ebook) Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan by Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, Joan R. Piggott ISBN 9780520231054, 9780520231382, 9781417522606, 0520231058, 0520231384, 1417522607

(Ebook) Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan by Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Kim Haboush, Joan R. Piggott ISBN 9780520231054, 9780520231382, 9781417522606, 0520231058, 0520231384, 1417522607

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.