Chapter 8 (China and the World)

The woman of Song Dynasty was the most interesting to me. China was less than golden for many women for that era marked yet another turning point in the history of Chinese particularly. These women had participated in social life with greater freedom than in earlier times. I thought this was pretty interesting to know that women had social life because normally women aren't able to have a social life of their own without their husbands back then. It was associated with new images of females beauty and eroticism that emphasized small size, frailty, and difference and served to keep women restricted to the "inner quarters" where the confucian tradition though they belonged. I thought this was rude to stick women in a category of how beauty is supposed to be based off of their opinion. Women however did own their own restaurants because the property rights expanded allowing women to control their own dowries and to inherit property from their families. I thought thus was cool to read because to know women got some right over ownership. Women also got education which I thought was awesome. I thought over all that all the opportunities women got was so cool to read about because normally when you read about the past with women the don't have that any right and to read how much they wearable to do was awesome.