"An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities"--P. [4] of cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-358) and index.
Contents:
Perils of the sentimental family for royalty in postrevolutionary France : the case of Queen Marie-Amélie / Jo Burr Margadant. 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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