生命的意义何在？翻开史册，明清时期的节妇烈女、诰命贵妇以及教子有方的贤母不绝如缕。掩卷扼腕之际不禁令人深思：历史中的妇女是如何考虑人生不朽的？这种想法又如何影响她们的生活？ 《女子之不朽：明清时期的女教观念》从女教、女学及妇女启蒙三个方面逐一考察明清时期女教传统之衍变和才女文化之兴盛，并反思清末民初的妇女启蒙观念及其在国家民族话语中的变奏。 人生的意义何在？虽然明清妇女不能在庙堂之上建功立业，但她们同样也关注着人生的不朽。 《女子之不朽：明清时期的女教观念》从女教、女学及妇女启蒙三个方面逐一考察明清时期女教传统之衍变和才女文化之兴盛，并反思清末民初的妇女启蒙观念及其在国家民族话语中的变奏。明清女教极力把妇女纳入到整饬家庭秩序、巩固王化基础的社会系统中，无论是女教书的条文，还是文人撰写的妇女墓志碑文，都充斥着对妇道母德的颂扬。在这种大环境下，闺秀才女虽以妇道母德为行为尺规，但仍不懈地追求女学。她们在文学创作中陶冶情操、发古今之幽思，并通过著作昭示其责任意识和“不朽”观。 这一力量的蓄积正是晚清男女平权运动萌发的远因，嘉道以降，女教和女学受西学东渐的影响而发生变化，冰心、苏雪林、丁玲等一大批新知识女性向我们走来。

人们常说“战争让女人走开”，可又“冲冠一怒为红颜”，古今中外有多少战争因女人而起。女人，往往被认为是战争的导火索，战时的危险分子，社会秩序的破坏者，这在抗战时期的上海亦屡见不鲜。消耗长统丝袜的“摩登女郎”、“妇女国货年”中的“摩登狗儿”，“打麻将”的上海“英雌”，不肯回家的“职业妇女”，为了出人头第巡回开办画展的女画家，被道德和法律审判为战时“伪组织”的“抗战夫人”……女人因这些而与战争相关，“战争”给了妇女的体验、记忆和“民族国家”的历史与话语关联、对质的机会，但是传统的战争史研究却与这些性别体验无关，本书没有继承“国家兴亡，匹妇有责”的传统女性战争史写作套路，转而从性别角度重新思考民族战争，希望为探索战争与解放所包含的复杂历史脉络与多样的社会面相，重新审视这场中日战争对于中国社会，尤其是对中国女性的影响，提供新的可能。

With the disintegration of Confucian cosmology after the fall of the imperial system in China, medical science was introduced as an epistemological foundation for social order. The construction of sexuality as a dangerous drive which was thought to form the very core of the individual led to the emergence of a wide range of identities like the menstruating girl, the hysterical housewife, the masturbating adolescent and the syphilitic husband. The naturalization of desire also introduced a tension between the sexual responsibilities of the individual and the coercive intervention of civil society in the name of the collective health of future generations. Although new categories of analysis, such as 'population', 'race', 'sex', 'woman' and 'youth' were introduced to early Republican China from abroad, their reception and adaptation were founded on cultural reorientations which may have taken place as long before as the 17th and 18th centuries. Instead of describing the rise of normative naturalism as a derivative discourse from 'the West', this book recognizes that the roots of modernizing representations may have had to be sought in a rich and diverse past in China itself. The author's analysis is based on medical and lay texts such as handbooks, marriage guides and introductions to physiology and sexual hygiene. The epilogue demonstrates how the sexual identities invented early this century are still in place in China today

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《清代中国的男性与女性》采用性别的视角对《红楼梦》的文本进行解读，挖掘隐藏的性别与政治话语。