Servants of the dynasty [[electronic resource] ] : palace women in world history / / edited by Anne Walthall

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (398 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.84/109
• Soggetto topico: Courtesans - History; Courts and courtiers - History; Ladies-in-waiting - History; Favorites, Royal - History; Harems - History
• Soggetto non controllato: african royal harem; anthropology; archeology; attendants; aztec royalty; benin; chinese imperial courts; concubines; drudges; entertainers; french royalty; gender and power; gender studies; global history; history; human history; japanese shogun; maids; male rulers; mayan states; men and women; monarchy; mothers; mughal india; nigeria; nobility; officials; patriarchal society; productive power; reproductive power; royal courts; royalty; sex; versailles; wives; women in royal courts; world history
• Altri autori: WalthallAnne
• Note generali: "An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--P. [4] of cover.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-358) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCING PALACE WOMEN -- 1. WOMEN AND THE PERFORMANCE OF POWER IN EARLY MODERN SOUTHEAST ASIA -- 2. WOMEN IN CLASSIC MAYA ROYAL COURTS -- 3. WOMEN AND POWER AT THE BYZANTINE COURT -- 4. BEYOND HAREM WALLS -- 5. MUGHAL PALACE WOMEN -- 6. POLITICS IN AN AFRICAN ROYAL HAREM -- 7. QING IMPERIAL WOMEN -- 8. THE ROYAL WOMEN OF IVAN IV'S FAMILY 8 AND THE MEANING OF FORCED TONSURE -- 9. SERVANTS OF THE INNER QUARTERS -- 10. WOMEN OF VERSAILLES, 1682-1789 -- 11. CONCUBINES AND CLOTH -- 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 PERILS OF THE SENTIMENTAL FAMILY FOR ROYALTY IN POSTREVOLUTIONARY FRANCE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Servants of the dynasty
• ISBN: 1-281-75265-7; 0-520-94151-9; 9786611752651; 1-4356-8475-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815849903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: California world history library ; ; 7.