Divine, Demonic, and DisorderedFemale chastity stirs trouble in medieval China A variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (9601279)medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotesdepict women who were considered peculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong to men. These were women who refused to marry, were considered unmarriageable, or were married but denied their husbands sexual access, thereby removing themselves from social constructs of female