Technology And Gender: Fabrics Of Power In Late Imperial China

Paperback • 1997

Technology And Gender: Fabrics Of Power In Late Imperial China

By Francesca Bray

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In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were imprisoned in the inner quarters, deprived of freedom and dignity, and so physically and morally deformed by footbinding and the tyrannies of patriarchy that they were incapable of productive work. She proposes a concept of gynotechnics, a set o...Show more

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9780520208612

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1997

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Technology And Gender: Fabrics Of Power In Late Imperial China

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