| 1 | Introduction Video "Small Happiness" |
| 2 | Feminist theory and women's history |
| 3 | Women in the traditional Chinese family |
| 4 | Marriage and Inheritance |
| 5 | Concubinage and the family |
| 6 | Divorce |
| 7 | Imagining the body: pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood |
| 8 | Sex and the law in traditional China |
| 9 | Prostitution |
| 10 | Virtuous Women and the State |
| 11 | Traditional Women's Education |
| 12 | Household management and work |
| 13 | Antecedents of revolutionary change: anti-marriage leagues |
| 14 | Taiping Rebellion and women's status |
| 15 | Western missionaries, feminism and changing notions of gender |
| 16 | Women in early 20th century revolutionary movements |
| 17 | Changing ancient customs: the anti-foodbinding movement |
| 18 | May Fourth and the family revolution video: "Family" |
| 19 | May Fourth and the family revolution Discussion of "Family" |
| 20 | Women's movements in the 1920s and 1930s |
| 21 | Changing life styles--the "new woman" and her critics |
| 22 | Mid-century war and revolution: women as participants and women as victims |
| 23 | Socialist state and the women's movement |
| 24 | Do Women hold up half the sky? |