Servants of the dynasty : palace women in world history

Servants of the dynasty : palace women in world history / edited by Anne Walthall.

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...

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Other Authors: Walthall, Anne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.
Series:California world history library ; 7.
Subjects:
Courtesans > History.
Courts and courtiers > History.
Ladies-in-waiting > History.
Favorites, Royal > History.
Harems > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Marriage & Family.
HISTORY > World.
Courtesans
Courts and courtiers
Favorites, Royal
Harems
Ladies-in-waiting
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Women and the performance of power in early modern Southeast Asia / Barbara Watson Andaya
  • Women in classic Maya royal courts / Takeshi Inomata
  • Women and power at the Byzantine court / Kathryn M. Ringrose
  • Beyond harem walls : Ottoman royal women and the exercise of power / Leslie P. Peirce
  • Mughal palace women / Ruby Lal
  • Politics in an African royal harem : women and seclusion at the royal court of Benin, Nigeria / Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan
  • Qing imperial women : empresses, concubines, and Aisin Gioro daughters / Shuo Wang
  • Royal women of Ivan IV's family and the meaning of forced tonsure / Isolde Thyrêt
  • Servants of the inner quarters : the women of the Shogun's Great Interior / Hata Hisako
  • Women of Versailles, 1682-1789 / Kathryn Norberg
  • Concubines and cloth : women and weaving in Aztec palaces and colonial Mexico / Susan Toby Evans
  • Women, royalty, and indigo dyeing in Northern Nigeria, circa 1500-1807 / Heidi J. Nast
  • Gender and entertainment at the Song court / Beverly Bossler
  • Vanished women of Korea : the anonymity of texts and the historicity of subjects / JaHyun Kim Haboush
  • Perils of the sentimental family for royalty in postrevolutionary France : the case of Queen Marie-Amélie / Jo Burr Margadant.

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