TY - BOOK ID - 40306939 TI - Servants of the dynasty : palace women in world history PY - 2008 VL - 7 SN - 9780520254442 9780520254435 0520941519 9786611752651 1435684753 9780520941519 1281752657 9781281752659 0520254430 0520254449 661175265X 9781435684751 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Courtesans KW - Courts and courtiers KW - Ladies-in-waiting KW - Favorites, Royal KW - Harems KW - Courtisanes KW - Cour et courtisans KW - Dames d'honneur KW - Favorites KW - Harems (Femmes) KW - History. KW - Histoire KW - J4201 KW - J4624 KW - Harem KW - Polygyny KW - Court favorites KW - Royal favorites KW - Queens KW - Court and courtiers KW - Courtiers KW - Kings and rulers KW - Manners and customs KW - Prostitutes KW - History KW - Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- social classes and groups -- upper class, elite KW - Japan: Politics and law -- state -- emperor KW - african royal harem. KW - anthropology. KW - archeology. KW - attendants. KW - aztec royalty. KW - benin. KW - chinese imperial courts. KW - concubines. KW - drudges. KW - entertainers. KW - french royalty. KW - gender and power. KW - gender studies. KW - global history. KW - history. KW - human history. KW - japanese shogun. KW - maids. KW - male rulers. KW - mayan states. KW - men and women. KW - monarchy. KW - mothers. KW - mughal india. KW - nigeria. KW - nobility. KW - officials. KW - patriarchal society. KW - productive power. KW - reproductive power. KW - royal courts. KW - royalty. KW - sex. KW - versailles. KW - wives. KW - women in royal courts. KW - world history. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:40306939 AB - 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. ER -