Chinese women in the imperial past

"The present volume is the result of a Leiden workshop on Women in Imperial China by a group of international scholars. In recent years Chinese women and gender studies have attracted more and more attention, and as such this is the first work encompassing the major aspects of this subject. It covers a wide range of topics and disciplines, including anthropology, bibliography, demography, history, legal studies, literature, medicine, history of medicine, psychology, and philosophy."--BOOK JACKET.