Women and Power in Imperial China 9781495170638

Writing Women in Late Imperial China 9780804765916

Until recently only a handful of women writers were thought to have existed in traditional China, but new scholarship ha

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Palace Women in the Northern Sung 9789004065079, 9781495170638

Priscilla Ching Chung’s pioneering study of women in ancient China was followed by decades of rapid growth in this area

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The Imperial Women of Rome: Power, Gender, Context 0190455896, 9780190455897

The Imperial Women of Rome explores the constraints and activities of the women who were part of Rome's imperial fa

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Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China 9780520947610

This innovative book uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Foc

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Reproducing women: medicine, metaphor, and childbirth in late imperial China 9780520260689, 9780520947610

"Uses the lens of cultural history to examine the development of medicine in Qing dynasty China. Focusing on the sp

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Negotiated Power in Late Imperial China: The Zongli Yamen and the Politics of Reform 9781942242376

Negotiated Power in Late Imperial China: The Zongli Yamen and the Politics of Reform explores the nature and functioning

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Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China 0520206851, 9780520206854

In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of t

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Technology and gender: fabrics of power in late imperial China 9780520206854, 9780520208612, 9780520919006

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Imperial Women in Byzantium 1025-1204: Power, Patronage and Ideology 1317884663, 9781317884668, 9781317884651

This book will be essential reading for anyone studying Byzantine history in this period. It ranges in time from the dea

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Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China [Reprint 2019 ed.] 9780520919006

In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, Francesca Bray inserts women into the history of t

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