EAST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ming Dynasty, Northern And Southern Dynasties, House Husbands

• School: McGill University
• Department: Asian Language & Literature
• Course: EAST 211
• Professor: Rebecca Robinson

Document Summary

Mid term: in leacock 26, full period time. Social roles of women (qingming scroll: produce sons. Every women would marry, continue husband"s lineage. Some didn"t marry and join monetary, or after her husband has died: care givers. Care giver to women"s parents in law, they were always subordinate. Look after parents in law, feed them first. Take care of their bodily and spiritual needs: ritual role. Take part in ancestral sacrifices with husband. Presenting the new wife: household manager. Took on the more important role within the house. Husbands are away in business for commerce or official for long periods of time. Women expected to manage the household and raise the children in the absence of the husbands. Husbands would sometimes bring wife but usually concubines. Substantial economic power within the house hold: educators of children. Expected to perform certain tasks, read confucian classics to the baby in the womb so the child would be a virtuous child.