Women in the Ottoman Balkans : gender, culture and history / edited by Amila Buturović and İrvin Cemi̇l Schick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buturović, Amila, 1963-

Schick, İrvin Cemil.

Series:

Library of Ottoman studies ; v. 15.

Library of Ottoman studies ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Balkan Peninsula--History.

Women.

History.

Balkan Peninsula.

Physical Description:

viii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Contents:

Eastern concubines, western mistresses: Prévost's Histoire d'une Grecque moderne / Olga Augustinos

Persecution and perfidy: women's and men's worldviews in Pontic Greek folktales / Patricia Fann Bouteneff

Love and/or death? Women and conflict resolution in the traditional Bosnian ballad / Amila Buturović

Women founders of Pious endowments in Ottoman Bosnia / Kerima Filan

Jewish tobacco workers in Salonika: gender and family in the context of social and ethnic strife / Gila Hadar

Judicial treatment of the matrimonial problems of Christian women in Rumeli during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Svetlana Ivanova

Women, fashion, and Europeanization: the Romanian principalities, 1750-1830 / Angela Jianu

The role of women in Southeast European vampire belief / Peter Mario Kreuter

Christian women in an Ottoman world: interpersonal and family cases brought before the Shari'a courts during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (cases involving the Greek community) / Sophia Laiou

Christian maidens, Turkish ravishers: the sexualization of national conflict in the late Ottoman period / Irvin Cemil Schick

Women in Ottoman Bosnia as seen through the eyes of Luka Botic, a Christian poet / Mirna Šolić

Missing husbands, waiting wives, Bosnian Muftis: fatwa texts and the interpretation of gendered presences and absences in late Ottoman Bosnia / Selma Zečević.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845115050

1845115058

OCLC:

124026452