Harem Histories Envisioning Places and Living Spaces

Name: Harem Histories Envisioning Places and Living Spaces
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ISBN: 9780822348696

ISBN-10: 0822348691

ISBN-13: 9780822348696

Edition: 2011

Authors: Marilyn Booth, Asma Afsaruddin, Orit Bashkin, Julia Clancy-Smith, Joan DelPlato

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List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 1/3/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.28" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Introduction




Normative Images and Shifting Spaces



Early Women Exemplars and the Construction of Gendered Space (Re-)Defining Feminine Moral Excellence




Normative Notions of Public and Private in Early Islamic Culture




The Harem as Gendered Space and the Spatial Reproduction of Gender




Rooms and Thresholds Harems as Spaces, Socialities, and Law



Caliphal Harems, Household Harems Baghdad in the Fourth Century of the Islamic Era




Domesticating Sexuality Harem Culture in Ottoman Imperial Law




Panoptic Bodies Black Eunuchs as Guardians of the Topkapi Harem




Where Elites Meet Harem Visits, Sea Bathing, and Sociabilities in Precolonial Tunisia, c. 1800-1881




The Harem as Biography Domestic Architecture, Gender, and Nostalgia in Modern Syria




Harems Envisioned



Harem/House/Set Domestic Interiors in Photography from the Late Ottoman World




Dress and Undress Clothing and Eroticism in Nineteenth-Century Visual Representations of the Harem




Harems, Women, and Political Tyranny in the Works of Jurji Zaydan




The Harem as the Seat of Middle-class Industry and Morality The Fiction of Ahmet Midhat Efendi




Between Harem and Houseboat ï¿½Fallenness,ï¿½ Gendered Spaces, and the Female National Subject in 1920s Egypt



Bibliography


Contributors


Index