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A concubine who gave birth to a child acknowledged by the father was given the special status of an umm al-walad; [6] she could not be sold and was automatically free after her master's death. [7] The acknowledged children of a concubine were considered free, legitimate and equal in status to the children from a man's wife.
Until the Song dynasty (960–1276), it was considered a serious breach of social ethics to promote a concubine to a wife. [6] During the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), the status of concubines improved. It became permissible to promote a concubine to wife, if the original wife had died and the concubine was the mother of the only surviving sons.
Until the Song dynasty (960–1276), it was considered a serious breach of social ethics to promote a concubine to a wife. [73] During the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), the status of concubines improved. It became permissible to promote a concubine to wife, if the original wife had died and the concubine was the mother of the only surviving sons.
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Although usage of the word concubina during the Roman Empire poses ambiguities of role and status, the difference between the Imperial-era concubine as a subject of legal interest and a paelex or extralegal concubine during the Republic is fairly straightforward: the paelex was a woman "installed" by a married man as a sexual rival to his wife, [8] whereas the concubina was a wife-like ...
Raise the Red Lantern [4] (traditional Chinese: 大紅燈籠高高掛; simplified Chinese: 大红灯笼高高挂), originally known as Wives and Concubines (Chinese: 妻妾成群; pinyin: Qīqiè Chéngqún), is a 1990 novella by Su Tong, published by Yuan-Liou Publishing Co. [] (遠流出版公司), [5] that describes a female former university student whose mind is broken by the concubine ...
The Levite's concubine in the book of Judges is "vulnerable as she is only a minor wife, a concubine". [2]: 173 She is one of the biblical nameless. Frymer-Kensky says this story is also an example of class intersecting with gender and power: when she is unhappy she runs home, only to have her father give her to another, the Levite.
Here, we follow the story of a young Eritrean woman who crossed mountains, oceans and deserts to escape the small, secretive East African nation. This series is based on research by the Overseas Development Institute, Journeys to Europe, was produced by PositiveNegatives, and was animated by The Huffington Post.