The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender

Editor:
Ann A. Pang-White

Publication Date:
April, 2016

Publisher: 
Bloomsbury Academic

Abstract:

Covering the historical, social, political, and cultural contexts, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender presents a comprehensive overview of the complexity of gender disparity in Chinese thought and culture.

Divided into four main sections, an international group of experts in Chinese Studies write on Confucian, Daoist and Buddhist approaches to gender relations. Each section includes a general introduction, a set of authoritative articles written by leading scholars and comprehensive bibliographies, designed to provide the non-specialist with a practical and broad overview. Beginning with the Ancient and Medieval period before moving on to Modern and Contemporary approaches, specially commissioned chapters include Pre-Qin canonical texts, women in early Chinese ethics, the yin-yang gender dynamic and the Buddhist understanding of the conception of gender. Considering why the philosophy of women and gender dynamics in Chinese thought is rarely confronted, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Philosophy and Gender is a pioneering cross-disciplinary introduction to Chinese philosophy's intersection with gender studies.

By bridging the fields of Chinese philosophy, religion, intellectual history, feminism, and gender studies, this cutting-edge volume fills a great need in the current literature on Chinese philosophy and provides student and scholars with an invaluable research resource to a growing field.



Table of Contents:

Introduction: A Road Less Travelled

Part I: Confucian Approaches: Ancient and Medieval

1. Women and Moral Dilemmas in Early Chinese Ethics
Paul R. Goldin, The University of Pennsylvania, USA

2. Discourses on Women from the Classical Period to the Song: An Integrated Approach
Terry Tak-ling Woo, York University, Canada

3. Neo-Confucians and Zhu Xi on Family and Woman: Challenges and Potentials
Ann A. Pang-White, The University of Scranton, USA

4. The Dream of Sagehood: A Re-Examination of Queen Sohae's Naehoon and Feminism
Hye-Kyung Kim, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, USA

Part II: Confucian Approaches: Modern and Contemporary

5. Close Personal Relationships and the Situated Self: The Confucian Analects and Feminist Philosophy
Karyn Lai, University of New South Wales, Australia

6. Care and Justice: Reading Mencius, Kant, and Gilligan Comparatively
Chenyang Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

7. Moral Reasoning: the Female Way and the Xunzian Way
Ellie Hua Wang, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

8. Multiculturalism and Feminism Revisited: A Hybridized Confucian Care Ethics
Lisa Rosenlee, The University of Hawaii-West O'ahu, USA

9. Would Confucianism Allow Two Men to Share a Peach? Compatibility Between Ancient Confucianism and Homosexuality
Sin-Yee Chan, The University of Vermont, USA

Part III: Daoist Approaches

10. Yinyang Gender Dynamics: Lived Bodies, Rhythmical Changes and Cultural Performances
Robin Wang, Loyola Marymount University, USA

11. On the Dao of Ci (Feminine/Female) in the Daodejing
Lin Ma, Renmin University, China

12. To Beget and to Forget: On the Transformative Power of the Two Feminine Images of Dao in the Laozi
Galia Pratt-Shimar, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

13. The Yijing, Gender, and the Ethics of Nature
Eric Nelson, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, USA

14. Daoism and the LGBT Community
Sue Scheibler, Loyola Marymount University, USA

Part IV: Buddhist Approaches

15. Buddhist Nondualism: Deconstructing Gender and Other Delusions of the Discriminating Mind Through Awareness
Sandra Wawrytko, San Diego State University, USA

16. Non-self, Agency, and Women: Buddhism's Modern Transformation
Ann A. Pang-White, The University of Scranton, USA

17. “The Bodhisattva's Path” as Gender-neutral Practices--A Case Study of Buddhist Tzh Chi Community in Taiwan
Huei-Syin Lu, Tzu Chi University, Taiwan

18. Bhik?uni Chao-Hwei's Buddhist-Feminist Social Ethics
Hsiao-Lan Hu, University of Detroit Mercy, USA

Index