Gender and Virtue in Nansō Satomi hakkenden
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19150751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Stuart Walley (0000-0002-2006-7304, corresponding author), Glynne Walley |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 337-371 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0073-0548 • E-ISSN: 1944-6454 |
| Publisher | Harvard–Yenching Institute (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jas.2012.0020 |
| OpenAlex | W1483921703 |
| Language | DE |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 4 |
Good and evil, Gynne Walley argues, are the one constant dialectic in Kyokutei Bakin’s early nineteenth-century popular novel Nansō Satomi hakkenden , but they are not the only binary the author constructs. Hakkenden ’s world, like its author’s own, is one that proposes a number of dichotomies with moral dimensions. Prominent among these is the gender distinction: male and female are presumed to be opposite and mutually exclusive categories existing in a morally determined hierarchy. Women are defined as being, by their very natures, less capable of moral rectitude than men. By exploring how Bakin treats the topic of gender in this landmark work of Tokugawa fiction, Walley shows how Hakkenden sets the moral dialectic against the gender binary, ultimately destabilizing the categories of male and female in order to strengthen those of good and evil
Dialectic · Dichotomy · Epistemology · Hierarchy · Political science · Sociology · Virtue · Gender Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2018 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |