Queen Tomyris then herself mustered all her forces and engaged Cyrus in battle. They fought at close quarters and eventually the Massagatae gained the upper hand. Most of the Persian army was wiped out, Cyrus himself died. Queen Tomyris filled a wineskin with human blood and searched the ...
:Reviews the book 'Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha,' by Lesley Downer.DusheckKay MeredithLibrary JournalSee Lesley Downer, Women of the Pleasure Quarters: The Secret History of the Geisha, Broadway Books, New York, 2001, 70-76; Kanzaki Kiyoshi, `Geisha in ...
RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook gentlewoman (redirected fromgentlewomen) Thesaurus Legal gen·tle·wom·an (jĕn′tl-wo͝om′ən) n. 1.A woman of gentle or noble birth or superior social position. ...
Despite high home prices and air pollution, more professionals decided to stay in Beijing than leave in the past five quarters as the country's capital offered most job opportunities, according to figures released on Tuesday. China counts on aggressive tax cut to spur economy As the biggest tax...
"Women, Money, and Class: Ssu-ma Kuang and NeoConfucian Views on Women," in Zhongguo jinshi shehui wenhua shilun wenji. Taipei: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. ---. 1993a. The Inner Quarters: Marriage and the Lives of Chinese Women in the Sung Period. Berkeley: Uni...
(gentry) families were divided by walls into women's quarters ( anch'ae ), men's quarters ( sarangch'ae ), and servants' quarters ( haengnangch'ae ), reflecting the Confucian rules of gender segregation and status discrimination between the yangban and their servants in the social ...
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Anna lived in an era when women chiefly were expected to remain secluded in their quarters (called gyneceum) attending solely to family matters. They covered their faces with veils in public and were not even allowed to appear in processions. Yet Anna offered high praise for the accomplishments...
Two strong and determined women Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins have both published their first books. Controversial books with sex scenes written from a woman’s point of view their books, and they, were decried from many quarters. Nancy White has come to New York to interview for a jo...
By the time of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Russian society seriously lagged behind Western Europe‘s. Although the country was industrializing faster than ever at the turn of the century, a government census conducted in 1897 found that at least three-quarters of the population still con...