Servants of the Dynasty : Palace Women in World History.
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| Author / Creator: | Walthall, Anne. |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (398 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | California World History Library California World History Library. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10001675 |
Table of Contents:
- CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introducing Palace Women; 1. Women and the Performance of Powerin Early Modern Southeast Asia; 2. Women in Classic Maya Royal Courts; 3. Women and Power at the Byzantine Court; 4. Beyond Harem Walls: Ottoman Royal Women and the Exercise of Power; 5. Mughal Palace Women; 6. Politics in an African Royal Harem: Women and Seclusion at the Royal Courtof Benin, Nigeria; 7. Qing Imperial Women: Empresses, Concubines, and Aisin Gioro Daughters; 8. The Royal Women of Ivan IV's Family and the Meaning of Forced Tonsure
- 9. Servants of the Inner Quarters: The Women of the Shogun's Great Interior10. Women of Versailles, 1682-1789; 11. Concubines and Cloth: Women and Weaving in Aztec Palaces and Colonial Mexico; 12. Women, Royalty, and Indigo Dyeing in Northern Nigeria, circa 1500-1807; 13. Gender and Entertainment at the Song Court; 14. The Vanished Women of Korea: The Anonymity of Texts and the Historicity of Subjects; 15. The Perils of the Sentimental Family for Royalty in Postrevolutionary France: The Case of Queen Marie-AmeĢlie; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index