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"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."--Book cover.

Courtesans --- Courts and courtiers --- Ladies-in-waiting --- Favorites, Royal --- Harems --- Courtisanes --- Cour et courtisans --- Dames d'honneur --- Favorites --- Harems (Femmes) --- History. --- Histoire --- J4201 --- J4624 --- Harem --- Polygyny --- Court favorites --- Royal favorites --- Queens --- Court and courtiers --- Courtiers --- Kings and rulers --- Manners and customs --- Prostitutes --- History --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- social classes and groups -- upper class, elite --- Japan: Politics and law -- state -- emperor --- 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.

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Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- History --- Gender --- International --- Power --- Polygamy --- Sex work --- Monarchies --- Book --- Nobility

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Combining translations of five peasant narratives with critical commentary on their provenance and implications for historical study, this book illuminates the life of the peasantry in Tokugawa Japan.

Peasant uprisings --- History --- Japan --- Peasants --- Rebellions

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The essays in this groundbreaking book explore the meanings of manhood in Japan from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. Recreating Japanese Men examines a broad range of attitudes regarding properly masculine pursuits and modes of behavior. It charts breakdowns in traditional and conventional societal roles and the resulting crises of masculinity. Contributors address key questions about Japanese manhood ranging from icons such as the samurai to marginal men including hermaphrodites, robots, techno-geeks, rock climbers, shop clerks, soldiers, shoguns, and more. In addition to bringing historical evidence to bear on definitions of masculinity, contributors provide fresh analyses on the ways contemporary modes and styles of masculinity have affected Japanese men's sense of gender as authentic and stable.

Men --- Masculinity --- Sex role --- Identity. --- anthropologists. --- anthropology. --- asia scholars. --- asian studies. --- behavioral studies. --- contemporary japan. --- cultural historians. --- early modern japan. --- essay collection. --- geeks. --- gender identity. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- generational. --- hermaphrodites. --- historians. --- historical. --- japan. --- japanese culture. --- japanese history. --- japanese men. --- japanese society. --- manhood. --- masculinity. --- mens issues. --- mens roles. --- nonfiction essays. --- samurai. --- shoguns. --- social science. --- sociologists. --- traditional roles.