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The Female Eunuch
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Author : Germaine Greer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
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Inside The World Of The Eunuch
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Author : Melissa S. Dale
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-01
Inside The World Of The Eunuch written by Melissa S. Dale and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-01 with History categories.
The history of Qing palace eunuchs is defined by a tension between the role eunuchs were meant to play and the life they intended to live. This study tells the story of how a complicated and much-maligned group of people struggled to insert a degree of agency into their lives. Rulers of the Qing dynasty were determined to ensure the eunuchs’ subservience and to limit their influence by imposing a management style based upon strict rules, corporal punishment, and collective responsibility. Few eunuchs wielded significant political power or lived in a lavish style during the Qing dynasty. Emasculation and employment in the palace placed eunuchs at the center of the empire, yet also subjected them to servile status and marginalization by society. Seeking more control over their lives, eunuchs serving the Qing repeatedly tested the boundaries of subservience to the emperor and the imperial court. This portrait of eunuch society reveals that Qing palace eunuchs operated within two parallel realms, one revolving around the emperor and the court by day and another among the eunuchs themselves by night where they recreated the social bonds—through drinking, gambling, and opium smoking—denied them by their palace service. Far from being the ideal servants, eunuchs proved to be a constant source of anxiety and labor challenges for the Qing court. For a long time eunuchs have simply been cast as villains in Chinese history. Inside the World of the Eunuch goes beyond this misleadingly one-dimensional depiction to show how eunuchs actually lived during the Qing dynasty. “This book is a thorough and responsible account of eunuch life during the Qing dynasty, which takes us deep inside the Forbidden City and introduces the often underclass families who provided servants to the Qing monarchs.” —R. Kent Guy, University of Washington “This is a unique study of Chinese eunuchs, in which Melissa Dale proves that they were a necessary and vital presence in the palace of the last dynasty in China. She explores all aspects of their life to the end of their existence, while avoiding the temptation to sensationalize them.” —Keith McMahon, University of Kansas
Chinese Eunuchs
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Author : Taisuke Mitamura
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 1992
Chinese Eunuchs written by Taisuke Mitamura and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
This book traces the history of eunuchism from its very early days until November 5, 1924, when the system was finally banned and hundreds of eunuchs, "crying pitifully in high-pitched, feminine voices," were expelled from Tzu Chin Palace, thus ending a system that had endured over 2, 000 years and through 25 dynasties.
Female Eunuch
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Author : Germaine Greer
language : en
Publisher: Bantam Books
Release Date : 1981-06-01
Female Eunuch written by Germaine Greer and has been published by Bantam Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-06-01 with Social Science categories.
A feminist discusses the physical and psychological features of her sex, stressing the social significance of love and hate
The Female Eunuch
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Author : Germaine Greer
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-02-06
The Female Eunuch written by Germaine Greer and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-06 with Social Science categories.
The publication of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch in 1970 was a landmark event, raising eyebrows and ire while creating a shock wave of recognition in women around the world with its steadfast assertion that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation. Today, Greer's searing examination of the oppression of women in contemporary society is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved.
After Eunuchs
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Author : Howard Chiang
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-07
After Eunuchs written by Howard Chiang and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-07 with History categories.
For much of Chinese history, the eunuch stood out as an exceptional figure at the margins of gender categories. Amid the disintegration of the Qing Empire, men and women in China began to understand their differences in the language of modern science. In After Eunuchs, Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing the centrality of new epistemic structures to the formation of Chinese modernity. From anticastration discourses in the late Qing era to sex-reassignment surgeries in Taiwan in the 1950s and queer movements in the 1980s and 1990s, After Eunuchs explores the ways the introduction of Western biomedical sciences transformed normative meanings of gender, sexuality, and the body in China. Chiang investigates how competing definitions of sex circulated in science, medicine, vernacular culture, and the periodical press, bringing to light a rich and vibrant discourse of sex change in the first half of the twentieth century. He focuses on the stories of gender and sexual minorities as well as a large supporting cast of doctors, scientists, philosophers, educators, reformers, journalists, and tabloid writers, as they debated the questions of political sovereignty, national belonging, cultural authenticity, scientific modernity, human difference, and the power and authority of truths about sex. Theoretically sophisticated and far-reaching, After Eunuchs is an innovative contribution to the history and philosophy of science and queer and Sinophone studies.
Imperial Woman
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Author : Pearl S. Buck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
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Imperial Woman
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Author : Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Imperial Woman written by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with China categories.
Fictionized biography of Tzu-hsi, the last empress of China, who was known as "Old Buddha."
Chinese Eunuchs
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Release Date : 1970
Chinese Eunuchs written by and has been published by Tuttle Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with China categories.
Hidden Power
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Author : Mary M. Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Hidden Power written by Mary M. Anderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
A little-known yet significant role in Chinese history was played by the palace eunuchs--castrated men who developed a concealed subcaste that manipulated monarchs and caused the downfall of immense dynasties. This book vividly chronicles the history of the imperial eunuchs: from the murky origins of the practice to the Ming dynasty when 100,000 eunuchs were employed as agents of the Dragon Throne, to the 1912 uprising that swept away the monarchy and the age-old eunuch system forever.