Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. A vision of sexual order; 3. The evolution of rape law: female chastity and the threat of the outside male; 4. The problem of the penetrated male: Qing sodomy legislation and the fixing of male gender; 5. Widows in the Qing chastity cult; the nexus of sex and property in law and in women's lives; 6. Sexual behavior as status performance: the regulation of prostitution before 1723; 7. The extension of commoner standards: Yongzheng reforms and the criminalization of prostitution; 8. Conclusion; Appendices.