Wybrane aspekty konfucjańskiego modelu kobiecości

• Authors: Adina Zemanek

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SELECTED ASPECTS OF THE CONFUCIAN MODEL OF FEMININITY

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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This article presents and discusses the situation of women in imperial China, available to Polish readers interested in this subject. The few works related to Chinese women published so far in Poland often depict them as victims of Confucian patriarchalism, deprived of any possibility of shaping their own lives. Meanwhile, the situation of women in the Chinese empire was more complex than that, due to a host of factors such as: ethnic and social status, geographic location, and so on. This article focuses on the Confucian model of womanhood as an ideal construct that changed in the course of history and was often in conflict with actual social practice. The Confucian model is discussed in the context of various aspects in the life of upper -class Han Chinese women, in various historical periods.

Keywords

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CONFUCIANISM; FEMININITY; PATRIARCHALISM

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 2(14)
• Pages: 483-504

Contributors

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Adina Zemanek

• Wydział Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych, ul. Gronostajowa 3, Cracow, Poland