Women Shall Not Rule - 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 Shall Not Rule write by Keith McMahon. This book was released on 2013-06-06. Women Shall Not Rule available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chinese emperors guaranteed male successors by taking multiple wives, in some cases hundreds and even thousands. Women Shall Not Rule offers a fascinating history of imperial wives and concubines, especially in light of the greatest challenges to polygamous harmony—rivalry between women and their attempts to engage in politics. Besides ambitious empresses and concubines, these vivid stories of the imperial polygamous family are also populated with prolific emperors, wanton women, libertine men, cunning eunuchs, and bizarre cases of intrigue and scandal among rival wives. Keith McMahon, a leading expert on the history of gender in China, draws upon decades of research to describe the values and ideals of imperial polygamy and the ways in which it worked and did not work in real life. His rich sources are both historical and fictional, including poetic accounts and sensational stories told in pornographic detail. Displaying rare historical breadth, his lively and fascinating study will be invaluable as a comprehensive and authoritative resource for all readers interested in the domestic life of royal palaces across the world.
The Year of Living Biblically
The Year of Living Biblically - 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 The Year of Living Biblically write by A. J. Jacobs. This book was released on 2008-09-09. The Year of Living Biblically available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The bestselling author of The Know-It-All takes on history's most influential book.
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.
All the Rules
All the Rules - 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 All the Rules write by Ellen Fein. This book was released on 2008-11-15. All the Rules available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The search for Mr. Right starts here. This simple set of dating dos and don'ts-combining The Rules and The Rules II-will teach you how to find (and keep!) a man who treats you with the respect and dignity you deserve. You are a creature unlike any other (Rule #1)-that's why you need... The Rules. Refreshingly blunt, astonishingly effective, and at times hilarious, All the Rules will lead you to where you want to be: in a healthy, committed relationship. These commonsense guidelines will help you: Lead a full, satisfying, busy life outside of romance. Accept occasional defeat and move on. Bring out the best in you and in the men you date. Whether you're eighteen or eighty, these time-tested techniques will help you find the man of your dreams.
Why Women Should Rule the World
Why Women Should Rule the World - 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 Why Women Should Rule the World write by Dee Dee Myers. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Why Women Should Rule the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If women ruled the world, politics would be more collegial, businesses would be more productive, and communities would be healthier. More women should lead—not because they are the same as men, but precisely because they are different. Reflecting on her own tenure as White House press secretary and her work as a political analyst, media commentator, and former consultant to NBC's The West Wing, Dee Dee Myers blends memoir and social history with a call to action, as she assesses the crucial but long-ignored strengths that female leaders bring to the table. With intelligence, courage, candor, and wit, she looks at the obstacles women must overcome and the traps they must avoid on the path to success, and she challenges us to imagine a not-too-distant future with more women standing tall in the top ranks of politics, business, science, and academia.
