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Harem histories : envisioning places and living spaces /

Collection explores the idea and actualities of "harem" and gendered space through historically shifting social and architectural constructs and as a literary and artistic trope, in Islamic societies and in Euro/American imaginations.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Booth, Marilyn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 topkapi 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.