Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:12819255
Imperial Woman
Pearl S. Buck
Imperial Women
Imperial Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Imperial Women book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Imperial Women
S.E. Wood
Author : S.E. Wood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004351288
Imperial Women by S.E. Wood Pdf
From the end of the Roman Republic to the death of the last Julio-Claudian emperor, portraits of women - on coins, public monuments, and private luxury objects - became an increasingly familiar sight throughout the empire. These women usually represented the distinguished bloodlines of the head of the state, or his hopes for succession, but in every case, their images were freighted with political significance. These objects also communicated social messages about the appropriate roles, behavior, and self-presentation of women. This volume traces the emergence and development of the public female portrait, from Octavia, the first Roman woman to be represented in propria persona on coinage, to the formidable and ambitious Agrippina the Younger, whose assassination demonstrated to later women the limits of official power they could demand.
Reproducing Women
Yi-Li Wu
Author : Yi-Li Wu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520947610
Reproducing Women by Yi-Li Wu Pdf
This innovative book uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the specialty of "medicine for women"(fuke), Yi-Li Wu explores the material and ideological issues associated with childbearing in the late imperial period. She draws on a rich array of medical writings that circulated in seventeenth- to nineteenth-century China to analyze the points of convergence and contention that shaped people's views of women's reproductive diseases. These points of contention touched on fundamental issues: How different were women's bodies from men's? What drugs were best for promoting conception and preventing miscarriage? Was childbirth inherently dangerous? And who was best qualified to judge? Wu shows that late imperial medicine approached these questions with a new, positive perspective.
Imperial Women of Rome
Mary Taliaferro Boatwright
Author : Mary Taliaferro Boatwright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190455897
Imperial Women of Rome by Mary Taliaferro Boatwright Pdf
Using all available sources, Boatwright explores the constraints and activities of the women of Rome's imperial families from 35 BCE to 235 CE. Livia, Agrippina the Younger, Julia Domna, and others feature in this richly illustrated investigation of change, continuity, historical contingency, and personal agency in imperial women's pursuits and representations.
The Last Empress
Anchee Min
Author : Anchee Min
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408828991
The Last Empress by Anchee Min Pdf
'Vivid and entertaining ... this is history as it plays upon the emotions. Empires crumble, hearts are broken' THE TIMES From the bestselling author of Red Azalea comes the much-anticipated sequel to Empress Orchid At the end of the nineteenth century China is rocked by foreign attacks and local rebellions. The only constant is the power wielded by one woman, Tzu Hsi, also known as Empress Orchid, who must face the perilous condition of her empire and devastating personal losses. In this sequel to the bestselling Empress Orchid, Anchee Min brings to life one of the most important figures in Chinese history, a very human leader who sacrifices all she has to protect both those she loves and her doomed empire.
Imperial Plots
Sarah Carter
Author : Sarah Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0887558186
Imperial Plots by Sarah Carter Pdf
Imperial Plots depicts the female farmers and ranchers of the prairies, from the Indigenous women agriculturalists of the Plains to the array of women who resolved to work on the land in the first decades of the twentieth century.
The Surplus Woman
Catherine Leota Dollard
Author : Catherine Leota Dollard
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1845454804
The Surplus Woman by Catherine Leota Dollard Pdf
The alte Jungfer -- Sexology and the single woman -- Imagined demography -- The maternal spirit -- Moderate activism : Helene Lange and Alice Salomon -- Radical reform : Helene Stöcker, Ruth Bré, and Lily Braun -- Socialism and singleness : Clara Zetkin -- Spiritual salvation : Elisabeth Gnauck-Kühne.
Women in British Imperial Airspace
Liz Millward
Author : Liz Millward
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773560512
Women in British Imperial Airspace by Liz Millward Pdf
The romance of flying the airways that developed above the British empire between the two world wars seduced young women with the promise of independence, glamour, and adventure.
Imperial Women in Byzantium 1025-1204
Barbara Hill
Author : Barbara Hill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317884651
Imperial Women in Byzantium 1025-1204 by Barbara Hill Pdf
This book will be essential reading for anyone studying Byzantine history in this period. It ranges in time from the death of the emperor Basil II in 1025 to the sacking of the city of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusaders in 1204, spanning the rise and fall of the successful Komnenos dynasty. Eleventh-century Byzantine history is unusual in that imperial women were able to wield immense power and in this ground-breaking book Dr Hill explores why this was possible and, equally, why they lost their position of influence a century later.
Imperial Woman
Pearl S. Buck
Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck Pdf
Great Women of Imperial Rome
Jasper Burns
Author : Jasper Burns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134131853
Great Women of Imperial Rome by Jasper Burns Pdf
A lively and engaging account of the leading ladies of imperial Rome from the foundation of the Empire to the third century AD (and a postscript on the fourth century). It is illustrated by 416 Coin Photographs as well as a dozen striking portraits by the author, and will thus be an indispensable resource for historians, art historians and numismatists in addition to its wider appeal.
Women Shall Not Rule
Keith McMahon
Author : Keith McMahon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442222908
Women Shall Not Rule by Keith McMahon Pdf
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.
Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China
Li Guo
Author : Li Guo
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781612493824
Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China by Li Guo Pdf
In Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Modern China, Li Guo presents the first book-length study in English of women’s tanci fiction, the distinctive Chinese form of narrative written in rhymed lines during the late imperial to early modern period (related to, but different from, the orally performed version also called tanci) She explores the tradition through a comparative analysis of five seminal texts. Guo argues that Chinese women writers of the period position the personal within the diegesis in order to reconfigure their moral commitments and personal desires. By fashioning a “feminine” representation of subjectivity, tanci writers found a habitable space of self-expression in the male-dominated literary tradition.Through her discussion of the emergence, evolution, and impact of women’s tanci, Guo shows how historical forces acting on the formation of the genre serve as the background for an investigation of cross-dressing, self-portraiture, and authorial self-representation. Further, Guo approaches anew the concept of “woman-oriented perspective” and argues that this perspective conceptualizes a narrative framework in which the heroine (s) are endowed with mobility to exercise their talent and power as social beings as men’s equals. Such a woman-oriented perspective redefines normalized gender roles with an eye to exposing women’s potentialities to transform historical and social customs in order to engender a world with better prospects for women.
Women’s Poetry of Late Imperial China
Xiaorong Li
Author : Xiaorong Li
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295804439
Women’s Poetry of Late Imperial China by Xiaorong Li Pdf
This study of poetry by women in late imperial China examines the metamorphosis of the trope of the "inner chambers" (gui), to which women were confined in traditional Chinese households, and which in literature were both a real and an imaginary place. Originally popularized in sixth-century "palace style" poetry, the inner chambers were used by male writers as a setting in which to celebrate female beauty, to lament the loneliness of abandoned women, and by extension, to serve as a political allegory for the exile of loyal and upright male ministers spurned by the imperial court. Female writers of lyric poetry (ci) soon adopted the theme, beginning its transition from male fantasy to multidimensional representation of women and their place in society, and eventually its manifestation in other poetic genres as well. Emerging from the role of sexual objects within poetry, late imperial women were agents of literary change in their expansion and complication of the boudoir theme. While some take ownership and de-eroticizing its imagery for their own purposes, adding voices of children and older women, and filling the inner chambers with purposeful activity such as conversation, teaching, religious ritual, music, sewing, childcare, and chess-playing, some simply want to escape from their confinement and protest gender restrictions imposed on women. Women's Poetry of Late Imperial China traces this evolution across centuries, providing and analyzing examples of poetic themes, motifs, and imagery associated with the inner chambers, and demonstrating the complication and nuancing of the gui theme by increasingly aware and sophisticated women writers.
Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004340626
Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature by Anonim Pdf
In Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature, the essay contributors explore how from the late Ming onward images of sexually transgressive women developed across a range of genres as women and men addressed tensions between past ideals and lived worlds.
