Women’s Choices under the Law: Marriage, Divorce, and Illicit Sex in the Qing and the Republic

Modern China

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-58

  Huang, Philip C C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; DIVORCE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTORY; JURISPRUDENCE; LEGAL ASPECT; MARRIAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL STATUS; SPOUSE; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

CHINA; DIVORCE; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; JURISPRUDENCE; MARRIAGE; SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL CONTROL POLICIES; SPOUSES; WOMEN; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 34247735124     PISSN: 00977004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/009770040102700101     Document Type: Article

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