Download or read book The Politics of Female Households written by Nadine Akkerman and published by Brill Academic Pub. This book was released on 2013 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-disciplinary collection of essays is the first cohesive attempt to integrate ladies-in-waiting into the master narrative of court studies. It provides evidence for the multitudinous ways in which 'women above stairs' influenced the politics and culture of their times.