Document Type
Article - On Campus Only
Publication Date
2010
Abstract
Based on original texts this essay attempts to describe two main conceptual constructions and practices of ideal womanhood in the Chinese tradition: Lienu (exemplary women) as the Confucian social inspirations for women and Kundao (way of female) as the Daoist commitment to bodily and spiritual transformation.
Recommended Citation
“Ideal Womanhood in Chinese Thought and Culture” Philosophy Compass, 2010, Vol 5: Issue 8, pp. 635–644.
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