TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buturović,Amila
AU  - Schick,İrvin Cemil
TI  - Women in the Ottoman Balkans: gender, culture and history 
T2  - Library of Ottoman studies
SN  - 9781845115050 (hbk.)
AV  - HQ1707 .W66 2007
U1  - 305.409496 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London, New York, New York
PB  - I.B. Tauris, Distributed in the U.S.A. by Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Women
KW  - Balkan Peninsula
KW  - History
KW  - Identity
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - This volume not only deepens our understanding of the distinctive contributions that women have made to Balkan history but also re-evaluates this through a more inclusive and interdisciplinary analysis in which gender takes its place alongside other categories such as class, religion, ethnicity and nationhood
ER  -