Beyond the familiar equipment of the cult to the feminine abstention - like hagiografías of the widows and the sanctuaries abstention - at the end of imperial China, this book explores political meaning of the sect and the practical ramifications in the daily life during century XVIII. In the first study long play of the subject, Janet Theiss examines a great number of legal dispositions, legal, prescribed cases and political that illustrate the social and political processes by means of which it was defined the feminine virtue, forced, and was against. In the way, it provides rich details of the social life and the common Chinese cultural practices between and the current ones through stories of criminal cases of sexual assault, the harassment, the adultery and the domestic violence.

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