The Way to Become a Female Sage
Im Yunjidang's Confucian Feminism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5306259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kim (0000-0003-2291-5896, corresponding author), Sungmoon Kim |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 395-416 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jhi.2014.0026 |
| OpenAlex | W2031215399 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 7 |
Is there a counterpart to John Stuart Mill or Mary Wollstonecraft in the Confucian tradition? If so, who is it? This paper aims to introduce and examine the philosophical thought of a Korean female neo-Confucian thinker named Im Yunjidang 任允摯堂 (1721-1793) who ardently pursued Confucian sagehood and upheld moral equality between men and women by creatively reinterpreting Confucian classics as well as advancing a sophisticated neo-Confucian philosophy of human nature and moral self-cultivation. I try to make sense of Yunjidang's "Confucian feminism" by paying attention to the neo-Confucian philosophical context in late Chosŏn Korea, in which Yunjidang was deeply embedded
China · Confucian ethics · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Feminism · Moral philosophy · Political science · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Breaking the silence
Confucian Humanism and the Importance of Female Education
From Wife to Moral Teacher
Towards Confucian Republicanism
Confucian Constitutionalism
Philosophy of Religion in a Radically Pluralist Spirit
Listening to the Voices That Talk Back
Yunjidang’s feminism and gender equality
Im Yunjidang’s View of Material Composition
Renovating Confucian ideas for gender equality
Learned Women, “Leftover” Women, and “The Third Sex” Women's Learning in the Confucian Tradition and Contemporary China
Im Yunjidang
Confucianism, Moral Equality, and Human Rights
Mencius and Masculinities
The Liberal Tradition in China
Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan
Culture and the State in Late Chosŏn Korea
The Confucian Transformation of Korea
Postmodernism in the Post-Confucian Context
Is the Morality of Human Beings Superior to the Morality of Non-Human Beings
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |