Concubines and Bondservants

Jaschok, Maria

White Lotus

Women, Religion, and Space in China: Islamic Mosques & Daoist Temples, Catholic Convents & Chinese Virgins (Routledge International Studies of Women and Place)

What enables women to hold firm in their beliefs in the face of long years of hostile persecution by the Communist party/state? How do women withstand daily discrimination and prolonged hardship under a Communist regime which held rejection of religious beliefs and practices as a patriotic duty? Through the use of archival and ethnographic sources and of rich life testimonies, this book provides a rare glimpse into how women came to find solace and happiness in the flourishing, female-dominated traditions of local Islamic women’s mosques, Daoist nunneries and Catholic convents in China. These women passionately – often against unimaginable odds – defended sites of prayer, education and congregation as their spiritual home and their promise of heaven, but also as their rightful claim to equal entitlements with men.

Women, Religion, and Space in China (Routledge International Studies of Women and Place)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Routledge

Shui, Jingjun

The History of Women's Mosques in Chinese Islam

This is a study of Chinese Hui Muslim women's historic and unrelenting spiritual, educational, political and gendered drive for an institutional presence in Islamic worship and leadership: 'a mosque of one's own' as a unique feature of Chinese Muslim culture. The authors place the historical origin of women's segregated religious institutions in the Chinese Islamic diaspora's fight for survival, and in their crucial contribution to the cause of ethnic/religious minority identity and solidarity. Against the presentation of complex historical developments of women's own site of worship and learning, the authors open out to contemporary problems of sexual politics within the wider society of socialist China and beyond to the history of Islam in all its cultural diversity.

Shui, Shui Jingjun

Reference

The practice of selling young daughters was common in southern China in the 19th and 20th centuries. Although the practice was formally abolished in 1923, the underlying social evaluation and attitudes survive and their importance is no less today than it was yesterday.

Concubines and Bond Servants: The Social History of a Chinese Custom

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Zed Books

History

Asia

<p>This is a study of Chinese Hui Muslim women's historic and unrelenting spiritual, educational, political and gendered drive for an institutional presence in Islamic worship and leadership: 'a mosque of one's own' as a unique feature of Chinese Muslim culture. The authors place the historical origin of women's segregated religious institutions in the Chinese Islamic diaspora's fight for survival, and in their crucial contribution to the cause of ethnic/religious minority identity and solidarity. Against the presentation of complex historical developments of women's own site of worship and learning, the authors open out to contemporary problems of sexual politics within the wider society of socialist China and beyond to the history of Islam in all its cultural diversity.</p>

ACLS History E-Book Project

<p>The practice of selling young daughters was common in southern China in the 19th and 20th centuries. Although the practice was formally abolished in 1923, the underlying social evaluation and attitudes survive and their importance is no less today than it was yesterday.</p>

ACLS Humanities E-Book

Women and Chinese Patriarchy: Submission, Servitude and Escape

This collection explores how Chinese women and girls have been transferred, bought and sold for marriage, concubinage, domestic service and prostitution, and the avenues of escape open to them, over the century from 1860 to 1960. The issues that it raises are of immediate interest today. The trade in women and girls has reappeared in China on a large scale since the mid-1970s, and in the last few years more than 65,000 people have been arrested for trafficking. Based on original documents, oral testimony and personal experience, the book is enriched by the eye-witness accounts of the women concerned, their owners, missionary rescuers and those who escaped. The vivid case studies cast new light on western and Chinese perceptions of freedom, sexual morality and women's roles.

Miers, Suzanne

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