... relations female obedience female subservience women's power women's authority gender writing deference affection Letters have long been plundered by social historians for what they reveal about the quality of family and social relationships. Paying particular attention to modes of address...

...This chapter reviews the relationship between increasing pot size in the archaeological record and the curtailment of women's power. By looking at how pots were made, how chicha was brewed, and how parties were thrown within the traditional domestic economy of the twentieth century, it is suggested...

... to fight did not mean that she also saw the need for modifying the basic gender system itself. Catharine's attempts to expand women's power also left a contradictory legacy. Beecher Catharine Beecher Edward Beecher Thomas Hooker Isabella Beecher Perkins Mary Beecher ix Sklar Kathryn Kish “Appeal...

...This chapter discusses the concept of “women's power” in relation to empresses' roles in Roman aristocracy. Despite being of the “inferior” sex, the empresses Faustnia I and II were able to wield considerable power and influence, even in a militaristic state that would only further undermine them...

...This book has investigated feminism's contribution to women's power/empowerment as well as conventional feminine powers in Zimbabwe. It has argued that feminism, the development of consciousness of sexism and the willingness to join with others to end discrimination against women, is not always...

... and striae love and birth magic maleficium superstition tricks and trickery Boniface saint practitioners of magic Pseudo Boniface Sermones amulets Carolingian ecclesiastics women's power women's magic occult Carolingian culture pagan symbols women's spirituality Have you believed what many...

... complicates gender complementarity, feminist associations of the babaylan with women's high status, and individualist understandings of women's power. Next, the chapter looks into the experiences of two contemporary Blaan female to male transgender nungaru (persons who know), putting these in conversation...

...This chapter studies how women's power is one of the fundamental determinants of not only economic growth but also education levels, ecological sustainability, and social peace. Why does women's power produce social and economic benefit? A key consideration is that women who are highly educated...