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Fables for the Patriarchs - Gender Politics in Tang Discourse (Paperback)
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Fables for the Patriarchs - Gender Politics in Tang Discourse (Paperback)
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Exploring issues of gender in Tang-dynasty literature and culture,
Jowen R.Tung draws on a comprehensive range of historical,
literary, and social texts to unravel the complex mechanisms of one
of the world's oldest patriarchal systems. The author reveals the
profound damage inflicted by the masculine state ideology on its
subjects by illuminating the problematics of male sexuality under
the hovering phallus of the emperor, the construct of male and
female psyches within the pseudo-monogamous household, the logic of
the collective unconscious in the literati's writings, and a female
tradition desperately trapped inside the law of the father. Tung
poses urgent questions about a civilization that builds itself upon
the sacrifice of human lives and arrives at a rather dark
interpretation of the Tang_for many the epitome of the Chinese
empire. As such, the book moves beyond the confines of gender
studies to propose a heightened agenda for feminist studies, which
the author argues now stand at a critical conjecture.
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