Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women Without Men in Song Dynasty China by Hsiao-Wen Cheng

Divine, Demonic, and Disordered: Women Without Men in Song Dynasty China

Hsiao-Wen Cheng

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A variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (960-1279)--medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes--depict women who were considered peculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong to men. These were women who refused to...

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