Women in the Ottoman Balkans : gender, culture and history /
edited by Amila Buturović and İrvin Cemil Schick.
- London ; New York : New York : I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the U.S.A. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- viii, 375 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Library of Ottoman studies ; 15 .
- Library of Ottoman studies ; v. 15. .
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.