Women’s standing at the opening of the early Modern era
Essay 1: Women’s standing at the opening of the early Modern eraA TWELFTH CENTURY C.E. DOCUMENT BY YUAN CAI, “Advice About Women,” explicitlydirects male heads of households in Song-dynasty China toward the imposition of a widevariety of limitations on the women in their household. Yet the editors of the sourcehighlight that Yuan’s attitudes were newly […]