Servants of the dynasty : palace women in world history /
Servants of the dynasty : palace women in world history /
edited by Anne Walthall.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
- 1 online resource (xi, 381 p.)
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- The California world history library ; 7 .
- The California world history library ; 7. .
"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--P. [4] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-358) and index.
Women and the performance of power in early modern Southeast Asia / Women in classic Maya royal courts / Women and power at the Byzantine court / Beyond harem walls : Ottoman royal women and the exercise of power / Mughal palace women / Politics in an African royal harem : women and seclusion at the royal court of Benin, Nigeria / Qing imperial women : empresses, concubines, and Aisin Gioro daughters / Royal women of Ivan IV's family and the meaning of forced tonsure / Servants of the inner quarters : the women of the Shogun's Great Interior / Women of Versailles, 1682-1789 / Concubines and cloth : women and weaving in Aztec palaces and colonial Mexico / Women, royalty, and indigo dyeing in Northern Nigeria, circa 1500-1807 / Gender and entertainment at the Song court / Vanished women of Korea : the anonymity of texts and the historicity of subjects / Perils of the sentimental family for royalty in postrevolutionary France : the case of Queen Marie-Amélie / Barbara Watson Andaya -- Takeshi Inomata -- Kathryn M. Ringrose -- Leslie P. Peirce -- Ruby Lal -- Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan -- Shuo Wang -- Isolde Thyrêt -- Hata Hisako -- Kathryn Norberg -- Susan Toby Evans -- Heidi J. Nast -- Beverly Bossler -- JaHyun Kim Haboush -- Jo Burr Margadant.
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.
English.
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10.1525/9780520941519 doi
22573/cttt3b5q JSTOR
2021696976
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Courtesans--History.
Courts and courtiers--History.
Ladies-in-waiting--History.
Favorites, Royal--History.
Harems--History.
Courtisanes--Histoire.
Cours et courtisans--Histoire.
Dames d'honneur--Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--Marriage & Family.
HISTORY--World.
Courtesans.
Courts and courtiers.
Favorites, Royal.
Harems.
Ladies-in-waiting.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
HQ1122
306.84/109
"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--P. [4] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-358) and index.
Women and the performance of power in early modern Southeast Asia / Women in classic Maya royal courts / Women and power at the Byzantine court / Beyond harem walls : Ottoman royal women and the exercise of power / Mughal palace women / Politics in an African royal harem : women and seclusion at the royal court of Benin, Nigeria / Qing imperial women : empresses, concubines, and Aisin Gioro daughters / Royal women of Ivan IV's family and the meaning of forced tonsure / Servants of the inner quarters : the women of the Shogun's Great Interior / Women of Versailles, 1682-1789 / Concubines and cloth : women and weaving in Aztec palaces and colonial Mexico / Women, royalty, and indigo dyeing in Northern Nigeria, circa 1500-1807 / Gender and entertainment at the Song court / Vanished women of Korea : the anonymity of texts and the historicity of subjects / Perils of the sentimental family for royalty in postrevolutionary France : the case of Queen Marie-Amélie / Barbara Watson Andaya -- Takeshi Inomata -- Kathryn M. Ringrose -- Leslie P. Peirce -- Ruby Lal -- Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan -- Shuo Wang -- Isolde Thyrêt -- Hata Hisako -- Kathryn Norberg -- Susan Toby Evans -- Heidi J. Nast -- Beverly Bossler -- JaHyun Kim Haboush -- Jo Burr Margadant.
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.
English.
9780520941519 ebook 0520941519 1281752657 9781281752659 9786611752651 661175265X 1435684753 9781435684751
10.1525/9780520941519 doi
22573/cttt3b5q JSTOR
2021696976
GBA825075 bnb
Uk
Courtesans--History.
Courts and courtiers--History.
Ladies-in-waiting--History.
Favorites, Royal--History.
Harems--History.
Courtisanes--Histoire.
Cours et courtisans--Histoire.
Dames d'honneur--Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--Marriage & Family.
HISTORY--World.
Courtesans.
Courts and courtiers.
Favorites, Royal.
Harems.
Ladies-in-waiting.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
HQ1122
306.84/109