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Harem histories : envisioning places and living spaces / Marilyn Booth, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Harems.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (425 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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 / Irvin 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-25204-X
- 9786613252043
- 0-8223-9346-8
- OCLC:
- 1202623292
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