Susan Mann is Professor Emerita of History at the University of California, Davis. She has written many books including The Talented Women of the Zhang Family (2007) and Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century (1997).
Introduction; Part I. Gender
Sexuality
and the State: 1. Family and state: the separation of the sexes; 2. Traffic in women and the problem of single men; 3. Gender relations in politics and law; Part II. Gender
Sexuality
and the Body: 4. The body in medicine
art
and sport; 5. Adorning
displaying
concealing
and altering the body; 6. Abandoning the body: female suicide and female infanticide; Part III. Gender
Sexuality
and the 'Other': 7. Same-sex relationships and transgendered performance; 8. Sexuality in the creative imagination; 9. Sexuality and the 'other'; Conclusion: gender
sexuality
and citizenship.
