书名：Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity / 艺妓、妾室与女性贞节崇拜
定价：428.0
ISBN：9780674066694
作者：Beverly Bossler
版次：1
出版时间：2013-01

内容提要：
书名：Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity / 名妓、妾室与贞女崇拜
作者：Beverly Bossler (贝弗利·博斯勒)
出版社：Harvard University Asia Center (哈佛大学亚洲中心，由哈佛大学出版社发行)，2013年
装帧：平装，约480页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 15.2*22.9 cm（6 x 9 英寸）

ISBN：978-0-6740-6669-4

简介
本书追溯了中国从十世纪到十四世纪（宋元时期）性别关系的变迁，通过考察三类关键女性群体——名妓、妾室与贞洁烈女——来揭示社会变革的脉络。作者Beverly Bossler展示了这些女性群体及其相关男性话语之间的交集与相互影响，如何从根本上改变了关于家庭关系和性别角色的观念。歌伎文化深刻影响了宋代的社会与家庭生活，娱乐才艺成为新型纳妾模式的定义特征，而兼具歌伎身份的妾室日益成为士人之子的母亲。程朱理学（即宋代新道德学说）反过来也受到这种娱乐文化及其所催生的女性市场的显著影响，理学家们主张在仪式中给予妾室母亲更多认可，并对妻妾争宠现象表示深切关注。本书还详细揭示了帝制晚期“贞节崇拜”出人意料的起源，表明自其萌芽之初，推崇女性忠诚便是植根于政治、社会与道德议程复杂交融的产物。全书按时间顺序分为三部分，依次论述了北宋、南宋和元代的性别动态。

This book traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries by examining three critical categories of women: courtesans, concubines, and faithful wives. It shows how the intersection and mutual influence of these groups—and of male discourses about them—transformed ideas about family relations and the proper roles of men and women. Courtesan culture had a profound effect on Song social and family life, as entertainment skills became a defining feature of a new model of concubinage, and as entertainer-concubines increasingly became mothers of literati sons. Neo-Confucianism, the new moral learning of the Song, was significantly shaped by this entertainment culture and by the new markets—in women—that it created. Responding to a broad social consensus, Neo-Confucians called for enhanced recognition of concubine mothers in ritual and expressed increasing concern about wifely jealousy. The book also details the surprising origins of the Late Imperial cult of fidelity, showing that from inception, the drive to celebrate female loyalty was rooted in a complex amalgam of political, social, and moral agendas. By taking women—and men's relationships with women—seriously, this book makes a case for the centrality of gender relations in the social, political, and intellectual life of the Song and Yuan dynasties.