Mary D. Garrard. Brunelleschi’s Egg: Nature, Art, and Gender in Renaissance Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. x + 430 pp. index. illus. bibl. $60. ISBN: 978–0–520–26152–5.

2011 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 899-901
Author(s):  
Marilyn Dunn
Keyword(s):  
University Of California ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Renaissance Italy

Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History. Edited by Susan Mann and Yu-Yin Cheng. [Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2001. 310 pp. $19.95; £13.95. ISBN 0-620-22276-8.]

2003 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 214-251
Author(s):  
Harriet Evans
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Confucian Tradition ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Complex Fluid ◽  
And Gender

Recent Western research on women and gender in Chinese history has raised critical questions about many of the familiar narratives of China's Confucian tradition. This research – much of it the work of contributors to this volume – has produced perspectives on gender relations that are at once more complex, fluid and historically plausible than the standard assumptions of Confucian discourse would suggest.

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