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List of Illustrations | p. vii |
List of Tables | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xi |
Introducing Palace Women | p. 1 |
Women and the Performance of Power in Early Modern Southeast Asia | p. 22 |
Women in Classic Maya Royal Courts | p. 45 |
Women and Power at the Byzantine Court | p. 65 |
Beyond Harem Walls: Ottoman Royal Women and the Exercise of Power | p. 81 |
Mughal Palace Women | p. 96 |
Politics in an African Royal Harem: Women and Seclusion at the Royal Court of Benin, Nigeria | p. 115 |
Qing Imperial Women: Empresses, Concubines, and Aisin Gioro Daughters | p. 137 |
The Royal Women of Ivan IV's Family and the Meaning of Forced Tonsure | p. 159 |
Servants of the Inner Quarters: The Women of the Shogun's Great Interior | p. 172 |
Women of Versailles, 1682-1789 | p. 191 |
Concubines and Cloth: Women and Weaving in Aztec Palaces and Colonial Mexico | p. 215 |
Women, Royalty, and Indigo Dyeing in Northern Nigeria, circa 1500-1807 | p. 232 |
Gender and Entertainment at the Song Court | p. 261 |
The Vanished Women of Korea: The Anonymity of Texts and the Historicity of Subjects | p. 280 |
The Perils of the Sentimental Family for Royalty in Postrevolutionary France: The Case of Queen Marie-Amelie | p. 299 |
Bibliography | p. 327 |
List of Contributors | p. 359 |
Index | p. 363 |
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