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Harem histories envisioning places and living spaces / Marilyn Booth, editor.

Contributor(s): Booth, MarilynMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010. Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: ISBN: 128325204X; 9786613252043; 0822393468Subject(s): Harems. -- HistoryDDC classification: 306.84/23091767 LOC classification: HQ1170 | .H288 2010
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 / 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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

English