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Stephanie Painter is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She is a historian of late imperial Chinese law and society. Her book manuscript entitled, What She Had, What She Wanted: Women's Defiance in Late Imperial China, reconstructs the varied and complex emotional, material, and working lives of non-elite married women from their testimonies preserved in husband-killing reports. Her second project builds upon the concept of “weak patriarchy,” approaching the adjudication of masculinity, such as in cases of husband-suicide, as an untapped site for understanding non-elite men’s conceptions of their identity and the state’s reaction to their nonnormative behaviors and vulnerabilities.

Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies, Department of History