Gender

Question 1

What is gender?

Answer 1

Gender is a social construct

Question 2

Gender in education

Answer 2

social/class differences
ideology
social channeling
knowledge and skills

Question 3

18th century chinese family schooling/education

Answer 3

inculcated sense of female inferiority
legitimised by neo-confucian ideas
-sima guang
-zhu xi

Question 4

what did the traditional chinese family look like?

Answer 4

Patriarchal
patrilineal
patrilocal/virilocal

Question 5

At what age did girls start foot binding (chanzu)?

Answer 5

8-10

Question 6

Late 19th - early 20th century anti-foot binding movements

Answer 6

Tianzu - Heaven’s Feet
Fangzu - Release/let out feet

Question 7

Woman’s Life cycle

Answer 7

age 15 - hair pinning ceremony
age 18 - marriage/concubinage
middle age / widowhood - “rice and salt” years
Old age

Question 8

What were some counter-balancing ideas?

Answer 8

insistence of an individual on marrying someone they really love
choosing not to marry
companionate relationships
agency
class differences