Wives, Widows, and Concubines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wives, Widows, and Concubines write by Mytheli Sreenivas. This book was released on 2008. Wives, Widows, and Concubines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Debates about family, property, and nation in Tamil India
Women and Social Reform in Modern India
Women and Social Reform in Modern India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Social Reform in Modern India write by Sumit Sarkar. This book was released on 2008. Women and Social Reform in Modern India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An impressive collection of writings on women's issues in Indian history
Celestial Women
Celestial Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celestial Women write by Keith McMahon. This book was released on 2016-04-21. Celestial Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume completes Keith McMahon’s acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor’s plural wives as mere victims or playthings, the book considers empresses and concubines as full-fledged participants in palace life, whether as mothers, wives, or go-betweens in the emperor’s relations with others in the palace. Although restrictions on women’s participation in politics increased dramatically after Empress Wu in the Tang, the author follows the strong and active women, of both high and low rank, who continued to appear. They counseled emperors, ghostwrote for them, oversaw succession when they died, and dominated them when they were weak. They influenced the emperor’s relationships with other women and enhanced their aura and that of the royal house with their acts of artistic and religious patronage. Dynastic history ended in China when the prohibition that women should not rule was defied for the final time by Dowager Cixi, the last great monarch before China’s transformation into a republic.
Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity
Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity write by Beverly Jo Bossler. This book was released on 2013. Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Courtesans, Concubines, and the Cult of Female Fidelity traces changing gender relations in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries. By taking women--and men's relationships with women--seriously, this book makes a case for the centrality of gender relations in the social, political, and intellectual life of the Song and Yuan dynasties.
Husbands, Wives, and Concubines
Husbands, Wives, and Concubines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Husbands, Wives, and Concubines write by Emlyn Eisenach. This book was released on 2004-05-25. Husbands, Wives, and Concubines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Emlyn Eisenach uses a wide range of sources, including the richly detailed and previously unexplored records of nearly two hundred marriage-related disputes from the bishop’s court of Verona, to illuminate family and social relations in early modern northern Italy. Arguing against the common emphasis on the growth of law and government in this period, her study emphasizes the fluidity of the principles that governed marriage and its dissolution, and deepens our understanding of the patriarchal family and its complex relationship with gender and status during the sixteenth century. Peopled by characters from across the social spectrum of the city of Verona and its contado, Eisenach’s study moves between stories about specific individuals—serving girls seeking honorable marriage through the unlikely route of concubinage, peasant men in search of independence from their fathers, and aristocratic wives seeking revenge against adulterous husbands—and broader analyses of social, economic, and geographical patterns of behavior. She shows how the Veronese at all social levels attempted to better their familial and personal fortunes by creatively molding wedding rituals to fit their particular circumstances, or engaging in the significant but until now little understood practices of concubinage, clandestine marriage, or informal marriage dissolution. Eisenach also evaluates the first half-century of religious reforms in Verona as the leading pre-Tridentine bishop Gian Matteo Giberti and his successors challenged common practices and understandings in sermons, treatises, confessionals, and court. Emphasizing the limitations of what the religious authorities could impose on the people, she explores how learned and popular notions of marriage, family, and gender shaped each other as they were put into action in the strategies of individual Veronese.
