Untamed Shrews : : Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China / / Shu Yang.
Untamed Shrews traces the evolution of unruly women in Chinese literature, from the reviled "shrew" to the celebrated "new woman." Notorious for her violence, jealousy, and promiscuity, the character of the shrew personified the threat of unruly femininity to the Confucian social...
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| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Frequently Cited Newspapers and Journals
- UNTAMED SHREWS
- Introduction: The Shrew–New Woman Nexus
- 1. The Shrew Is Back: Media Representations of the Early Radical Chinese Suffragettes
- 2. Jealous Shrew, Judicious New Woman: May Fourth Disputes on Female Jealousy and Virtue
- 3. Reconfiguring Female Promiscuity in Love and Independence: Pan Jinlian, Nora, and Jiang Qing
- 4. Popular Views on the Shrewish Wife: Henpecking Humor, Female Rule, and Family-State Metaphor
- 5. Revolutionary Views on the Shrewish Wife: From Husband-Disciplining to Early Communist State-Building
- Epilogue: Shrews in the Great Leap Forward
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index