Gynotechnique and Civilization Authors Francesca Bray University of Edinburgh Pau Pitarch (trad.) Columbia University Keywords: gynotechnique, technology, production, reproduction, Late imperial China Abstract This article, which is the last chapter from the title Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China, presents a summary of the study about the gynotechnique in the Late Imperial China which is about the technologies that defined women places and duties, technologies that constructed social ideas on women and about gender. Taking into account material activities and experiences, the author examines the production and reproduction technologies clarifying the traditional stereotype of the Chinese woman as confined and dependent. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2011-11-28 Issue No. 16 (2010): Mujeres en Asia Oriental Section Dossier License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
