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Ideal Womanhood in Chinese Thought and Culture
Article first published online: 20 JUL 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00312.x
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Wang, R. R. (2010), Ideal Womanhood in Chinese Thought and Culture. Philosophy Compass, 5: 635–644. doi: 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00312.x
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- Article first published online: 20 JUL 2010
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Abstract
Based on original texts this essay attempts to describe two main conceptual constructions and practices of ideal womanhood in the Chinese tradition: Lienu
(exemplary women) as the Confucian social inspirations for women and Kundao
(way of female) as the Daoist commitment to bodily and spiritual transformation.