Servants of the dynasty : palace women in world history
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Servants of the dynasty : palace women in world history
(The California world history library, 7)
University of California Press, c2008
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--P. [4] of cover
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-358) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Mothers, wives, concubines, entertainers, attendants, officials, maids, drudges. By offering the first comparative view of the women who lived, worked, and served in royal courts around the globe, this work opens a new perspective on the monarchies that have dominated much of human history. Written by leading historians, anthropologists, and archeologists, these lively essays take us from Mayan states to twentieth-century Benin in Nigeria, to the palace of Japanese Shoguns, the Chinese Imperial courts, eighteenth-century Versailles, Mughal India, and beyond. Together they investigate how women's roles differed, how their roles changed over time, and how their histories can illuminate the structures of power and societies in which they lived. This work also furthers our understanding of how royal courts, created to project the authority of male rulers, maintained themselves through the reproductive and productive powers of women.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introducing Palace Women--Anne Walthall 1. Women and the Performance of Power in Early Modern Southeast Asia--Barbara Watson Andaya 2. Women in Classic Maya Royal Courts--Takeshi Inomata 3. Women and Power at the Byzantine Court--Kathryn M. Ringrose 4. Beyond Harem Walls: Ottoman Royal Women and the Exercise of Power--Leslie P. Peirce 5. Mughal Palace Women--Ruby Lal 6. Politics in an African Royal Harem: Women and Seclusion at the Royal Court of Benin, Nigeria--Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan 7. Qing Imperial Women: Empresses, Concubines, and Aisin Gioro Daughters--Shuo Wang 8. The Royal Women of Ivan IV's Family and the Meaning of Forced Tonsure-- Isolde Thyret 9. Servants of the Inner Quarters: The Women of the Shogun's Great Interior--Hata Hisako 10. Women of Versailles, 1682-1789--Kathryn Norberg 11. Concubines and Cloth: Women and Weaving in Aztec Palaces and in Colonial Mexico--Susan Toby Evans 12. Women, Royalty, and Indigo Dyeing in Northern Nigeria, circa 1500-1807--Heidi J. Nast 13. Gender and Entertainment at the Song Court--Beverly Bossler 14. The Vanished Women of Korea: The Anonymity of Texts and the Historicity of Subjects--JaHyun Kim Haboush 15. The Perils of the Sentimental Family for Royalty in Postrevolutionary France: The Case of Queen Marie-Amelie--Jo Burr Margadant Bibliography Contributors Index
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