7. FEMALE RULE IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA: IS GENDER A USEFUL CATEGORY OF HISTORICAL ANALYSIS?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS viii
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
5. CONTRIBUTORS ix
6. 1. INTRODUCTION: PLACING QUEENSHIP INTO A GLOBAL CONTEXT 1
7. Part I. PERCEPTIONS OF REGNANT QUEENSHIP
8. 2 WHEN THE EMPEROR IS A WOMAN: THE CASE OF WU ZETIAN 武則天 (624–705), THE “EMULATOR OF HEAVEN” 13
9. 3. TAMAR OF GEORGIA (1184–1213) AND THE LANGUAGE OF FEMALE POWER 27
10. 4. REGNANT QUEENSHIP AND ROYAL MARRIAGE BETWEEN THE LATIN KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM AND THE NOBILITY OF WESTERN EUROPE 39
11. 5. QUEENSHIP AND FEMALE AUTHORITY IN THE SULTANATE OF DELHI (1206–1526) 53
12. 6. ANNA JAGIELLON: A FEMALE POLITICAL FIGURE IN THE EARLY MODERN POLISH– LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH 67
13. 7. FEMALE RULE IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA: IS GENDER A USEFUL CATEGORY OF HISTORICAL ANALYSIS? 79
14. 8. THE TRANSFORMATION OF AN ISLAND QUEEN: QUEEN BÉTI OF MADAGASCAR 95
15. 9. FEMALE RANGATIRA IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND 109
16. Part II. PRACTISING CO- RULERSHIP
17. 10. THE SOCIAL– POLITICAL ROLES OF THE PRINCESS IN KYIVAN RUS’, CA. 945–1240 125
18. 11. IMPRESSIONS OF WELSH QUEENSHIP IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES 147
19. 12. QUEEN ZAYNAB AL-NAFZAWIYYA AND THE BUILDING OF A MEDITERRANEAN EMPIRE IN THE ELEVENTH- CENTURY MAGHREB 159
20. 13. AL-DALFA’ AND THE POLITICAL ROLE OF THE UMM AL-WALAD IN THE LATE UMAYYAD CALIPHATE OF AL-ANDALUS 171
21. 14. THE KHITAN EMPRESS DOWAGERS YINGTIAN AND CHENGTIAN IN LIAO CHINA, 907–1125 183
22. 15. DOWAGER QUEENS AND ROYAL SUCCESSION IN PREMODERN KOREA 195
23. 16. THE AMBIGUITIES OF FEMALE RULE IN NAYAKA SOUTH INDIA, SEVENTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES 209
24. Part III. BREAKING DOWN BOUNDARIES: COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF QUEENSHIP
25. 17. HELENA’S HEIRS: TWO EIGHTH- CENTURY QUEENS 233
26. 18. THE HOHENSTAUFEN WOMEN AND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ARAGONESE AND GREEK QUEENSHIP MODELS 245
27. 19. THE “HONOURABLE LADIES” OF NASRID GRANADA: FEMALE POWER AND AGENCY IN THE ALHAMBRA (1400–1450) 255
28. 20. COMPARING THE FRENCH QUEEN REGENT AND THE OTTOMAN VALIDÉ SULTAN DURING THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES 271
29. 21. QUEENS AND COURTESANS IN JAPAN AND EARLY MODERN FRANCE 285
30. 22. THE FIGURE OF THE QUEEN MOTHER IN THE EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN MONARCHIES, 1400–1800 299
31. INDEX 309