A Century of Female Power Ze’evi, Dror. creator author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut SpringerLink (Online service) text sz 2024 1st ed. 2024. monographic eng

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access XV, 293 p. online resource. This textbook explores the histories of royal women in Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It argues that by dint of an unprecedented conjunction of historical shifts and powerful personalities, it was these women, and not men, who sat at the helm of global politics; moreover, it was they who in truth steered our world’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity. Organized into chapters devoted to each of the era’s great states, the book sets out to challenge several historical premises. First, it shows that women were the actual, if not always formally crowned, sovereigns of these states, or at least played a decisive role in shaping their policies. Second, the book dissolves the conventional dichotomy between East and West, showing that in both Christian Europe and Islamdom, women achieved their high status by means of similar strategies and at similar periods in history. Third, by demonstrating that there was a precedent for female authority long before the first harbingers of the women’s movement in the eighteenth century, the book calls into question received ideas about historical progress and the evolution of women’s liberation. 1. Introduction -- 2. Sultanas of the Ottoman Empire -- 3. Mughal Queens of Hindustan -- 4. The Safavid Queens of Iran -- 5. Queens of the Jews -- 6. Queens of France -- 7. Queens of the British Isles and Ireland -- 8. The Three Phases of 16th Century Female Rule -- 9. Conclusion: How and Why did it End?. by Dror Ze’evi. Women History World history Asia History Europe History Europe History 1492- Women's History / History of Gender World History, Global and Transnational History Asian History European History History of Early Modern Europe HQ1121-1154 9783031586347 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58634-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58634-7 241206 20251030114605.0 978-3-031-58634-7