The Sage and the Second Sex: Confucianism, Ethics, and Gender.(Review)

From: Philosophy East and West | Date: July 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

The Sage and the Second Sex: Confucianism, Ethics, and Gender. Edited by Chenyang Li, with a foreword by Patricia Ebrey. Chicago: Open Court, 2000. Pp. xiii + 256.

The relationship between Confucianism and sexism, or between "the sage and the second sex," as Chenyang Li suggests in the title of his new anthology The Sage and the Second Sex: Confucianism, Ethics, and Gender, is a complex issue. For one thing, scholars who engage in the field of Chinese gender studies would immediately be confronted with the questions "What constitutes Confucianism?" and "Can such sexist social ...

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