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In the Song Dynasty, the ranks of the scholar class expanded unprecedentedly, and correspondingly, the number of women in the scholar class also expanded. This book clearly defines the concept of "scholar-class women in the Song Dynasty", starting from order, norms and the actual life of women, and organizing it according to the logical sequence of society, family and individual levels. It extensively examines the norms for women in the Song Dynasty, including the state, scholar society, local villages and scholar-class families. It systematically displays the reality of the lives of scholar-class women in the Song Dynasty, and examines the relationship between the social order, norms and the lives of scholar-class women in the Song Dynasty from multiple angles and levels. The whole book is divided into two parts: upper and lower. The first part mainly discusses the process of Song Confucianism interpreting and constructing the ideal gender order with the help of Yin and Yang theory; the regulation of gender order by sexual deviance laws and the system of banners; the norms, education and expectations of women by scholars' public opinion, township reviews, and families. The second part examines the actual life of scholar-class women in the Song Dynasty from the perspective of social reality: their participation in the public sphere; their reading activities; their leisure and entertainment, travel and social gatherings; and the diverse models of husband-wife and wife-concubine relationships.