Abstract
List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introducing Palace Women--Anne Walthall 1. Women and the Performance of Power in Early Modern Southeast Asia--Barbara Watson Andaya 2. Women in Classic Maya Royal Courts--Takeshi Inomata 3. Women and Power at the Byzantine Court--Kathryn M. Ringrose 4. Beyond Harem Walls: Ottoman Royal Women and the Exercise of Power--Leslie P. Peirce 5. Mughal Palace Women--Ruby Lal 6. Politics in an African Royal Harem: Women and Seclusion at the Royal Court of Benin, Nigeria--Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan 7. Qing Imperial Women: Empresses, Concubines, and Aisin Gioro Daughters--Shuo Wang 8. The Royal Women of Ivan IV's Family and the Meaning of Forced Tonsure-- Isolde Thyret 9. Servants of the Inner Quarters: The Women of the Shogun's Great Interior--Hata Hisako 10. Women of Versailles, 1682-1789--Kathryn Norberg 11. Concubines and Cloth: Women and Weaving in Aztec Palaces and in Colonial Mexico--Susan Toby Evans 12. Women, Royalty, and Indigo Dyeing in Northern Nigeria, circa 1500-1807--Heidi J. Nast 13. Gender and Entertainment at the Song Court--Beverly Bossler 14. The Vanished Women of Korea: The Anonymity of Texts and the Historicity of Subjects--JaHyun Kim Haboush 15. The Perils of the Sentimental Family for Royalty in Postrevolutionary France: The Case of Queen Marie-Amelie--Jo Burr Margadant Bibliography Contributors Index
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