GENDER AND SEXUALITY

Gender and Sexuality



Gender and sexuality

Introduction

In the 18th century Chinese women continued to be subject and subordinate to men. His condition was maintained by laws, government policies, cultural traditions and philosophical concepts. Three times the Confucian ideology after identifying where a woman must show fidelity and loyalty by moving through its life cycle: as a girl who wants to follow his father as a woman who wants to follow her husband (Bailey, 2007, 115) and as a widow who would follow their children. In addition, in the Confucian perception of the distinction between inside and outside, women were sent to the domestic sphere of the inner and outer sphere excluding examinations, politics and public life. Generally, this ideology determines the century reality, living in China, a woman eighteenth time? This is particularly true for upper-class women.

Gender and Sexuality

The philosophical concept of yin and yang can be found throughout Chinese culture, literature (Bailey, 2007, 115) and social structure. The idea is that the world consists of two opposite types of energy that must be kept in balance. Neither is greater than the other, or more important than the other. Regarding gender, female is yin and yang is men. Yin, that's life private in the family and the yang, that's life in public outside the family. The men were to focus on public life and foreign affairs and support the family while women should focus on privacy and support for men. For many people resist the pressures of scientific careers, women appear as guardians of stability, order and purity. (Minsk, 2003, 14)

Women's quarters, isolated behind the gates of courtyards and deep in the recesses of the house that offers a refuge against the world of movement, chaos and corruption. Women and men fed when young tutor their tendency when ill, and care for them when they get older. When a man in the office with devastating financial losses or difficult political decisions, the only disinterested advice of his wife and frugal savings could save his career. Although the man may often be called out of service or I could die early, he could count on his wife or widow to care for their elderly parents and their children vulnerable. (Minsk, 2003, 14)

Ideally, women and men were to share in a partnership with the ultimate goal of mutual support and prosperity for the whole family. From a U.S. perspective modern, it seems terribly unfair. The men work and are empowered to interact with the world, and then return home for treatment. But this is not necessarily how it was perceived by the Chinese. There were many unhappy women. However, there were also men who believed that the private sector (domestic) family life is more desirable than public life, they are facing.

For Hong Liangji as well as many social critics of the time, the women's rooms; (Minsk, 2003, 14) have been a refuge in a complex, brutal. Elite Men face a daily confrontation with the corrupt material world and dusty, as so often ...