Celestial Women

Author : Keith McMahon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442255029

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Celestial Women by Keith McMahon Pdf

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.

Author : Olivia Waite
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062931788

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The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite Pdf

As Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover’s sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It isn’t until she finds a letter from the Countess of Moth, looking for someone to translate a groundbreaking French astronomy text, that she knows where to go. Showing up at the Countess’ London home, she hoped to find a challenge, not a woman who takes her breath away. Catherine St Day looks forward to a quiet widowhood once her late husband’s scientific legacy is fulfilled. She expected to hand off the translation and wash her hands of the project—instead, she is intrigued by the young woman who turns up at her door, begging to be allowed to do the work, and she agrees to let Lucy stay. But as Catherine finds herself longing for Lucy, everything she believes about herself and her life is tested. While Lucy spends her days interpreting the complicated French text, she spends her nights falling in love with the alluring Catherine. But sabotage and old wounds threaten to sever the threads that bind them. Can Lucy and Catherine find the strength to stay together or are they doomed to be star-crossed lovers?

Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538144923

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Women in Song and Yuan China by Bret Hinsch Pdf

This deeply researched book provides an original history of Chinese women during the pivotal Song and Yuan dynasties (960–1368). Bret Hinsch explores the most important aspects of female life in this era―political power, family, work, inheritance, religious roles, and emotions―and considers why the status of women declined during this period.

Author : Serinity Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190659707

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Women Who Fly by Serinity Young Pdf

From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women-some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly, Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She considers supernatural women like the Valkyries of Norse legend, who transport men to immortality; winged deities like the Greek goddesses Iris and Nike; figures of terror like the Furies, witches, and succubi; airborne Christian mystics; and wayward, dangerous women like Lilith and Morgan le Fay. Looking beyond the supernatural, Young examines the modern mythology surrounding twentieth-century female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Hanna Reitsch. Throughout, Young demonstrates that female power has always been inextricably linked with female sexuality and that the desire to control it is a pervasive theme in these stories. This is vividly depicted, for example, in the twelfth-century Niebelungenlied, in which the proud warrior-queen Brünnhilde loses her great physical strength when she is tricked into surrendering her virginity. Even in the twentieth-century the same idea is reflected in the exploits of the comic book and film character Wonder Woman who, Young suggests, retains her physical strength only because her love for fellow aviator Steve Trevor goes unrequited. The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, art, and pop culture, Women Who Fly offers a fresh look at the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions throughout the ages and around the world.

Author : Ayele Kumari
Publisher : Ayele Kumari
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Iyanifa : Women of Wisdom by Ayele Kumari Pdf

Iyanifa means Mother of Wisdom or Mother of Ifa. It is the position of the High Priestess in the Ifa Orisha tradition . The Ifa Orisha tradition of Africa is thousands of years old and was so strong, it was able to survive the slave trade to go on in the new world. What didn't survive the slave trade ,but remained in Africa was the position of Iyanifa. In a world where women have lost much of their ancient mysteries to patriarchy and slavery, a tradition is presented here that went underground but did not die. Iyanifas, Iyami, and Queen mothers of Africa resurface now to continue a legacy for new generations across the globe. This book is a collection of stories, essays, and explorations of the position of Iyanifa and its resurgence in the Diaspora. Gleaned from the perspective of the elder mothers who broke the glass ceiling to reclaim the tradition , they share their divine wisdom teachings, candid personal experiences, joys, and growing pains drawn from their lives as Iyanifas and women in the tradition. This volume of work features authors such as Luisah Teish, Iyanla Vanzant, Aina Olomo and many other powerful healers, diviners, and counselors. It is offered as a gift to women in the tradition and to those interested in Woman’s and African Studies to explore the path of Iyanifa and to be a resource for years to come.

Author : Robert L. Kendrick
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996-05-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780191584503

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Celestial Sirens by Robert L. Kendrick Pdf

This study investigates an almost unknown musical culture: that of cloistered nuns in one of the major cities of early modern Europe. These women were the most famous musicians of Milan, and the music composed for them opens up a hitherto unstudied musical repertory, which allows insight into the symbolic world of the city. Even more importantly, the music actually composed by four such nuns, Claudia Scossa, Claudia Rusca, Chiara Margarita Cozzollani, and Rosa Giacinta Badalla - reveals the musical expression of women's devotional life. The two centuries' worth of battles over nuns' singing of polyphony, studies here for the first time on the basis of massive archival documentation, also suggest that the implementation of reform in the major centre of post-Tridentine Catholic renewal was far more varied; incomplete, subject to local political pressure and individual interpretation, and short-lived than any religious historian has ever suggested. Other factors that marked nuns' musical lives and creative output - liturgical traditions of the religious orders, the problems of performance practice attendant upon all-female singing ensembles - are here addressed for the first time in the musicological literature.

Author : Jokha Alharthi
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948226943

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Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi Pdf

This winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and national bestseller is “an innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets" (The New York Times Book Review). In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool beautifully against a backdrop of a rapidly changing Oman, a country evolving from a traditional, slave-owning society into its complex present. Through the sisters, we glimpse a society in all its degrees, from the very poorest of the local slave families to those making money through the advent of new wealth. The first novel originally written in Arabic to ever win the Man Booker International Prize, and the first book by a female Omani author to be translated into English, Celestial Bodies marks the arrival in the United States of a major international writer.

Author : Kate Merkel-Hess
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226834313

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Women and Their Warlords by Kate Merkel-Hess Pdf

Explores the complex history and legacy of elite wives, concubines, and daughters of warlords in twentieth-century China. In Women and Their Warlords, historian Kate Merkel-Hess examines the lives and personalities of the female relatives of the military rulers who governed regions of China from 1916 to 1949. Posing for candid photographs and sitting for interviews, these women did not merely advance male rulers’ agendas. They advocated for social and political changes, gave voice to feminist ideas, and shaped how the public perceived them. As the first publicly political partners in modern China, the wives and concubines of Republican-era warlords changed how people viewed elite women’s engagement in politics. Drawing on popular media sources, including magazine profiles and gossip column items, Merkel-Hess draws unexpected connections between militarism, domestic life, and state power in this insightful new account of gender and authority in twentieth-century China.

Author : Faith Wambura Ngunjiri
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438429786

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Women's Spiritual Leadership in Africa by Faith Wambura Ngunjiri Pdf

Inspiring portraits of contemporary African women leaders.

Author : Emerald M. Archer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474238045

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Women, Warfare and Representation by Emerald M. Archer Pdf

Women, Warfare and Representation considers the various ways the American servicewoman has been represented throughout the 20th century and how those representations impact the roles she is permitted to inhabit. While women have a relatively short history in the American military, the last century shows an evolution of women's direct participation in war despite the need to overcome societal sex-role expectations. The primary focus is on the American case, but Emerald Archer also introduces a comparative element, showing how women's integration in the military differs in other countries, including Great Britain, Canada and Israel. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the book draws on military history, theory and social psychology to offer a more complete and integrated history of women in the military and their representation in society.

Author : Roswith Gerloff,Afe Adogame,Klaus Hock
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441123305

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Christianity in Africa and the African Diaspora by Roswith Gerloff,Afe Adogame,Klaus Hock Pdf

An exploration of the rapid development of African Christianity, offering an analysis and interpretation of its movements and issues.

Author : Bret Hinsch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538117972

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Women in Early Medieval China by Bret Hinsch Pdf

This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the early medieval period of disunion known as the Six Dynasties, which lasted from the fall of the Eastern Han dynasty in AD 220 to the reunification of China by the Sui dynasty in AD 581.

Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2RQE

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Noctes Ambrosianae by John Wilson Pdf

Author : John Wilson,James Hogg,John Gibson Lockhart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWE55K

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Noctes Ambrosian,̆ by John Wilson,James Hogg,John Gibson Lockhart Pdf

Author : Jacob of Gagnoa
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781434906649

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Holy Celestial Church by Jacob of Gagnoa Pdf