Rejecting both popular image and accepted Western and Chinese scholarship on the status of women in premodern China; this pathbreaking work argues that literate gentrywomen in seventeenth-century Jiangnan were far from being oppressed or silenced. The author reconstructs the social; emotional; and intellectual worlds of these women from the interstices between ideology; practice; and self-perception.
#446307 in Books Lonnie R Speer 2005-11-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.02 x .94 x 5.98l; 1.43 #File Name: 0803293429442 pagesPortals to Hell Military Prisons of the Civil War
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Good Reference BookBy George E. Bisbee IIGood listing of the Civil War Prison Camps. Some of the camp descriptions are well done; although others are shallow. It is a good reference book for those researching Civil War soldiers who were captured. Good depth on explaining sanitary conditions; disease; and nutrition as part of the death tolls. Particularly interesting sagas of former POWs who were later put in charge of prisons themselves.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. this is the best one to dateBy Ann YouellI've read many books on Northern prison camps; by far; this is the best one to date. Going year by year (1861-1865) made it easy to comprehend the similarities/differences between the camps.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Karen EdmundsonThe book was exactly as described. The book came quickly.
