Gendered Words

Built on twenty years of fieldwork in rural Jiangyong of Hunan Province in south China, this book explores the world''s only gender-defined and now disappearing "women''s script" known as nüshu. What drove peasant women to create a script of their own and write, and how do those writings throw new light on how gender is addressed in epistemology and historiography and how the unprivileged social c...