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ISBN
9780755600953
Book Title
Kingdom of Women : Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains
Publisher
I. B. Tauris & Company, The Limited
Item Length
5.4 in
Publication Year
2020
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.6 in
Author
Choo Waihong
Genre
History, Social Science
Topic
Women, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social History, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Women's Studies, Asia / China
Item Weight
6 Oz
Item Width
7.8 in
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the "Kingdom of Women," where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the "Kingdom of Women," where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal societies on earth, where power lies in the hands of women. All decisions and rights related to money, property, land and the children born to them rest with the Mosuo women, who live completely independently of husbands, fathers and brothers, with the grandmother as the head of each family. A unique practice is also enshrined in Mosuo tradition--that of "walking marriage," where women choose their own lovers from men within the tribe but are beholden to none.

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Publisher
I. B. Tauris & Company, The Limited
ISBN-10
0755600959
ISBN-13
9780755600953
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2309692902

Product Key Features

Book Title
Kingdom of Women : Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Topic
Women, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social History, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Women's Studies, Asia / China
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science
Author
Choo Waihong
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
6 Oz
Item Length
5.4 in
Item Width
7.8 in

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Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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A most engaging account of life among the matrilineal and matriarchal Mosuo tribe in China's Yunnan province, but also a lament to a way of life now threatened by modernity and tourism. Full of detail and telling insights into gender roles, it will appeal to armchair travellers as well as to anthropologists and sociologists., A crisp account by a high-powered Singaporean lawyer of how she renounced her former life of fifteen-hour working days in a male-dominated corporate world to find her feminist soul in the last matriarchal ethnic group remaining in China. Full of insights and touching descriptions, this is one of the most accessible and concrete descriptions of the Mosuo, a group more analysed than understood, putting the humanity of this tribe at the forefront of their identity., A refreshing and authentic portrait of a hidden society in patriarchal China. A must read for anyone studying women and alternative societies., A fascinating portrait of one of the world's last matriarchal societies, a land without fathers or husbands, without marriage or divorce, written by an international corporate lawyer who ditched her hectic life to embrace this Shangri-La inside deepest China.
Dewey Decimal
305.48800951
Table of Content
List of Plates Acknowledgements Preface Prelude Map: Kingdom of Women 1. Arriving in the Kingdom of Women2. Building a Mosuo Home3. Going Native4. Getting to Know the Mosuos5. Becoming the Godmother6. Hunting and Eating in Bygone Times7. How the Mosuo Women Rock8. The Men Rock Too9. A Marriage That Is Not a Marriage10. The Matrilineal Ties That Bind11. The Birth-Death Room12. On the Knife-Edge of Extinction Glossary

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