In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in
China, the author inserts women into the history of technology and
adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the
Orientalist image that traditional Chinese women were imprisoned in
the inner quarters, deprived of freedom and dignity, and so
physically and morally deformed by footbinding and the tyrannies of
patriachy that they were incapable of productive work. She proposes
a concept of "gynotechnics", a set of everyday technologies that
define women's roles, as a creative new way to explore how
societies translate moral and social principles into a web of
material forms and bodily practices. This work examines three
different aspects of domestic life in China, tracing their
developments from 1000 to 1800 AD. It begins with the shell of
domesticity, the house, focusing on how domestic space embodied
hierachies of gender. The text follows the shift in the textile
industry from domestic production to commercial production. Despite
increasing emphasis on women's reproductive roles, the author
argues, this cannot be reduced to childbearing. Female hierachies
within the family reinforced the power of wiv
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