82 Henry Rasemzont, J1:

her basic claim, I would maintain that insisting on gcnder equality in rcconstmeting
ctassical Confucianism is a necessav* and perhaps sufficient, condition fur recc>nf;g-
uring both gender roles and family responsibilities so that women and men could
equally learn and practice the regimen of self-cultivation, which ties at the heart of
the religious dimension of the Confucian tradition.
23. John Donne, Meditation XV11,
24, Earltier drafts of this chapter were read at the Center for the S ~ u d yof Gutturat
k i u e s at the University of Illinois, tlie East Asian Studies Centcr at Stanford Univer-
sity, tfse I3eyartxnent of Religious Studies at Brown University, and the Center for
Chinese Studies at the University of California-Berketcy. 1 am grateful to the audi-
ences for their comments and criticisms, especially to llavid Nivison, IlaviJ Meigfit-
te?~; P, J. Ivmhoe, Ha1 Ruth, Jock Reeder, and Barney Twiss. The middle third of the
chapter has appeared in several earlier forms in the works 1 have cited in Notes 13
and 14; these works include additional references and further discussion of the topics
treated iicrcin,