Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial ChinaCondition: NewISBN-10: 023121412XEAN: 9780231214124ISBN: 9780231214124Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/19/2024Description: In imperial China, people moved away from the gender they were assigned at birth in different ways and for many reasons. Eunuchs, boy actresses, and clergy left behind normative gender roles defined by family and procreation. “Stone maidens”—women deemed physically incapable of vaginal intercourse—might depart from families or marriages to become Buddhist or Daoist nuns. Anatomical males who presented as women sometimes took a conventionally female occupation such as midwife, faith healer, or even medium to a fox spirit. Yet they were often punished harshly for the crime of “masquerading in women’s attire,” suspected of sexual predation, even when they had lived peacefully in their communities for many years.Exploring these histories and many more, this book is a groundbreaking study of transgender lives and practices in late imperial China. Through close readings of court cases, as well as Ming and Qing fiction and nineteenth-century newspaper accounts, Matthew H. Sommer examines the social, legal, and cultural histories of gender crossing. He considers a range of transgender experiences, illuminating how certain forms of gender transgression were sanctioned in particular social contexts and penalized in others. Sommer scrutinizes the ways Qing legal authorities and literati writers represented and understood gender-nonconforming people and practices, contrasting official ideology with popular mentalities. An unprecedented account of China’s transgender histories, this book also sheds new light on a range of themes in Ming and Qing law, religion, medicine, literature, and culture.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Matthew H. SommerGenre: Society & CultureTopic: LGBTQ+, Gender Sex & Relationships, HistoryRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories
Title: The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories
ISBN-10: 023121412X
EAN: 9780231214124
ISBN: 9780231214124
Release Date: 03/19/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: History
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Sociology / General, Asia / China
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2024
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.7 Oz
Author: Matthew H. Sommer
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
