Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES vii
4. PREFACE xi
5. NOTES ON CONVENTIONS xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. PART ONE. Scripts of Male Dominance
8. 1. The Patriarchal Family Paradigm in Eighth-Century Japan 27
9. 2. The Last Classical Female Sovereign: Kōken-Shōtoku Tennō 47
10. 3. Representation of Females in Twelfth-Century Korean Historiography 75
11. 4. The Presence and Absence of Female Musicians and Music in China 97
12. PART TWO. Propagating Confucian Virtues
13. 5. Women and the Transmission of Confucian Culture in Song China 123
14. 6. Propagating Female Virtues in Chosŏn Korea 142
15. 7. State Indoctrination of Filial Piety in Tokugawa Japan: Sons and Daughters in the Official Records of Filial Piety 170
16. PART THREE. Female Education in Practice
17. 8. Norms and Texts for Women's Education in Tokugawa Japan 193
18. 9. Competing Claims on Womanly Virtue in Late Imperial China 219
19. PART FOUR. Corporeal and Textual Expressions of Female Subjectivity
20. 10. Discipline and Transformation: Body and Practice in the Lives of Daoist Holy Women of Tang China 251
21. 11. Versions and Subversions: Patriarchy and Polygamy in Korean Narratives 279
22. GLOSSARY 305
23. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER READING 313
24. CONTRIBUTORS 317
25. INDEX 321