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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Thorough and thoughtful,
By A Customer
This review is from: Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China (Paperback)
When it was written, Ko's book was one of the first to reconsider previously accepted views about women's status in China. The traditional readings had been that women were deprived, subjugated, and prisoners in their culture. While not attempting to paint a revisionary too-bright picture of women's lives, Ko considers the factors of class and economic status in the study of women. Her observations about women's reading and interaction are especially insightful and fascinating reading.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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A Necessary Book,
By Anna L. Glaze (Northern California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China (Paperback)
Ko's book is an excellent resource for discovering more about the all-too-often ignored world of women in imperial China. Instead of dismissing women in China's history as "sustainers rather than innovators," Ko has taken the time and effort to delve deeper into the role of women by focusing on China's pivotal seventeenth-century.
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Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Seventeenth-Century China by Dorothy Ko (Hardcover - January 1, 1995)
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