Harem histories : envisioning places and living spaces

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Harem histories : envisioning places and living spaces

Marilyn Booth, editor

Duke University Press, 2010

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Early women exemplars and the construction of gendered space : (re-)defining feminine moral excellence / Asma Afsaruddin
  • Normative notions of public and private in early Islamic culture / Yaseen Noorani
  • The harem as gendered space and the spatial reproduction of gender / İrvin Cemil Schick
  • Caliphal harems, household harems : Baghdad in the fourth century of the Islamic Era / Nadia Maria El Cheikh
  • Domesticating sexuality : harem culture in Ottoman imperial law / Leslie Peirce
  • Panoptic bodies : black eunuchs as guardians of the topkap? / Harem Jateen Lad
  • Where elites meet : harem visits, sea bathing, and sociabilities in precolonial Tunisia, c. 1800?1881 / Julia Clancy-Smith
  • The harem as biography : domestic architecture, gender, and nostalgia in modern Syria / Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh
  • Harem/house/set : domestic interiors in photography from the late Ottoman world / Nancy Micklewright
  • Dress and undress : clothing and eroticism in nineteenth-century visual representations of the harem / Joan DelPlato
  • Harems, women, and political tyranny in the works of Jurji Zaydan / Orit Bashkin
  • The harem as the seat of middle-class industry and morality : the fiction of Ahmet Midhat Efendi / A. Holly Shissler
  • Between harem and houseboat : "fallenness," gendered spaces, and the female national subject in 1920s Egypt / Marilyn Booth

Details

  • NCID
    BB05750177
  • ISBN
    • 9780822348580
    • 9780822348696
  • LCCN
    2010024127
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Durham
  • Pages/Volumes
    416 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
  • Classification
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