Harem Histories : Envisioning Places and Living Spaces /

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Harem Histories is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle Eastern and North African societies, and by visitors to those societies. One theme that threads through the collection is the intimate interrelatedness of West...

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Otros Autores: Afsaruddin, Asma (Contribuidor), Bashkin, Orit (Contribuidor), Booth, Marilyn (Contribuidor, Editor ), Clancy-Smith, Julia (Contribuidor), DelPlato, Joan (Contribuidor), El Cheikh, Nadia Maria (Contribuidor), Lad, Jateen (Contribuidor), Micklewright, Nancy (Contribuidor), Noorani, Yaseen (Contribuidor), Peirce, Leslie (Contribuidor), Schick, Irvin Cemil, Schick, İrvin Cemil (Contribuidor), Shissler, A. Holly (Contribuidor), Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2011]
Temas:
Harems.
HISTORY / Middle East / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I NORMATIVE IMAGES AND SHIFTING SPACES
  • one Early Women Exemplars and the Construction of Gendered Space
  • two Normative Notions of Public and Private in Early Islamic Culture
  • three The Harem as Gendered Space and the Spatial Reproduction of Gender
  • II ROOMS AND THRESHOLDS
  • four Caliphal Harems, Household Harems
  • five Domesticating Sexuality HAREM CULTURE IN OTTOMAN IMPERIAL LAW
  • six Panoptic Bodies
  • seven Where Elites Meet
  • eight The Harem as Biography
  • III HAREMS ENVISIONED
  • nine Harem/House/Set
  • ten Dress and Undress
  • eleven Harems, Women, and Political Tyranny in the Works of Jurji Zaydan
  • twelve The Harem as the Seat of Middle-class Industry and Morality
  • thirteen Between Harem and Houseboat
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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