ABSTRACT
In Section 1, ‘Familial Structures, Hierarchies and Power’, we examine hierarchies, networks and structures that enabled power within the House of OrangeNassau. What sorts of power to advance the House were possible for those in specific roles within the hierarchy, and how flexible were these roles to changes and pressures? We thus deconstruct positions of power, where power is understood relationally: between men and women; in hierarchies among men; and in particular sexual, class, social, race, and religious contexts that may constitute parallel forms and hierarchies of power.
