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

Contributor(s): Buturović, Amila, 1963- | Schick, İrvin CemilMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Library of Ottoman studies ; v. 15.Publication details: London ; New York : New York : I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the U.S.A. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Description: viii, 375 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781845115050 (hbk.); 1845115058 (hbk.)Subject(s): Women -- Balkan Peninsula -- History | Women -- Balkan Peninsula -- Identity -- History | Gender identity -- Balkan Peninsula -- History | Women -- Balkan Peninsula -- Social conditions -- HistoryGenre/Form: HistoryDDC classification: 305.409496 LOC classification: HQ1707 | .W66 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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.