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Author Bray, Francesca.

Title Technology and gender : fabrics of power in late imperial China / Francesca Bray.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 419 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note "A Philip E. Lilienthal book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-409) and index.
Contents List of Chinese Dynasties -- Introduction: The Framework of Everyday Life: Technology, Women and Cultural History -- pt. 1. Building a Tradition: The Construction of Chinese Social Space. 1. House Form and Meaning. 2. Encoding Patriarchy. 3. The Text of the Chinese House -- pt. 2. Women's Work: Weaving New Patterns in the Social Fabric. 4. Fabrics of Power: The Canonical Meanings of Women's Work. 5. Economic Expansion and Changing Division of Labor. 6. Women's Work and Women's Place -- pt. 3. Meanings of Motherhood: Reproductive Technologies and Their Uses. 7. Medical History and Gender History. 8. Reproductive Medicine and the Dual Nature of Fertility. 9. Reproductive Hierarchies. Conclusion: Gynotechnics and Civilization.
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Subject Sex role -- China -- History.
Sex role.
China.
History.
Women -- China -- Social conditions.
Women.
Social conditions.
Technology -- Social aspects -- China -- History.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Chronological Term 960-1912
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Gender roles.
Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Bray, Francesca. Technology and gender. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997 0520206851 (DLC) 96028828 (OCoLC)35086111
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