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Thursday, February 09, 2006

NAN NÜ: Men, Women and Gender in China

NAN NÜ: Men, Women and Gender in China
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Update

Members of the WAGnet should be pleased to learn that the costs of individual subscriptions to NAN NÜ have been considerably reduced. The publisher Brill now offers an individual subscription, beginning with volume 8 (2006) at either US$59 or EUR 47. For further info, please see the Brill website: http://www.brill.nl/

The second issue of 2005 was a theme number, under the editorship of Angela Leung (Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica). The contents of that issue are:

CONTENTS NAN NÜ 7.2 (2005)
Special Theme Issue Medicine for Women in Imperial China

Harriet T. ZURNDORFER "Foreword"......................................109
Angela Ki Che LEUNG "Recent Trends in the Study of Medicine for Women in Imperial China....110
Robin D.S. YATES "Medicine for Women in Early China: A Preliminary Survey"...........................127
Sabine WILMS "'Ten Times More Difficult to Treat': Female Bodies in Medical Texts from Early Imperial China .........182
Jen-der LEE "Childbirth in Early Imperial China"......216
Review ArticleMarta E. HANSON "Depleted Men, Emotional Women: Gender and Medicine in the Ming Dynasty"...........287


Book Review
ZHANG Zhibian, Gudai Zhongyi fuchanke jibingshi (Ricardo Kingsang MAK).................................305
Charlotte FURTH "Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Medicine and Gender: Early Imperial China"........................309
Index.........................317
Corrigenda


Volume 6 (2004)

This issue will also be printed as a separate book, available for purchase in 2006 from Brill's.

CONTENTS NAN NÜ 8.1 (2006) [due out in April, 2006]

James CAHILL "Paintings Done for Women in Ming Qing China?" [This article features 10 Color (!) plates, plus 14black and white images.]
Josephine CHIU-DUKE "Mothers and the Well-Being of the State in Tang China"
Steven MILES "Strange Encounters on the Cantonese Frontier: Region and Gender in Kuang Lu's (1604-50) Chiya"
Paul BAILEY "'Women Behaving Badly': Crime, Transgressive Behavior and Gender in Early Twentieth Century China"

Book reviews by Allan Barr, I-Hsien Wu, Andy Schonenbaum, Maram Epstein, Xiaorong LI, and Susan GLOSSER.