How Long to Read Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women

How Long Does it Take to Read Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 25 minutes to read Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women by Sherry J. Mou

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

As far back as the first century BCE, Chinese dynastic historians - all men - began recording the achievements of Chinese women and creating a structure of understanding that would be used to limit and control them. To men, these women became role models for their daughters and wives; to the few literate women readers, they became paradigms for their own behavior. Thus, although these biographies are descriptive by nature, they actually became prescriptive. Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives is an enlightening source for studying Chinese women of the Imperial era as well as for understanding Chinese womanhood in general. By contextualizing these biographies, the author shows us these women not just as the complaisant, calm-eyed, delicate figures that adorn Confucian texts, but also as the products of the Confucian tradition's appropriation of women.

How long is Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women?

Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women by Sherry J. Mou is 376 pages long, and a total of 96,256 words.

This makes it 127% the length of the average book. It also has 118% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 45 minutes to read Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women aloud.

What Reading Level is Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women?

Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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