Abstract：Based on abundant data about "dutiful daughters" and "filial women" recorded in local gazetteer of Zhejiang in Ming and Qing dynasties, this paper emphatically discusses problems such as these women's genre and quality, identity of biographee and the ownership of their bodies from the viewpoint of gendered body. The paper points out that the local gazetteer compilers took measures such as adjusting the compiling styles and changing narrative strategies to attract more young women to fulfill their filial duty to honour their fathers, husbands or brothers. This would have resulted in more women and even younger women willing to cut their flesh to heal parents, and thereby meeting the needs of elite Confucian intellectuals for fulfilling their own piety and righteousness and constructing their own self-identity.
徐鹏. 谁之身体,谁之孝?——对明清浙江方志记载女性“割股疗亲”现象的考察[J]. 妇女研究论丛, 2015, 0(5): 72-80.
XU Peng. Whose Body? Whose Piety?: The Phenomenon of Women "Cutting Flesh to Heal Parents" Recorded in Local Gazetteer of Zhejiang in Ming and Qing Dynasties. , 2015, 0(5): 72-80.
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