Harem histories : envisioning places and living spaces / Marilyn Booth, editor.
| Other author | Booth, Marilyn. |
| Other author | ProQuest (Firm) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010. |
| Description | 1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations |
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| Series | e-Duke books scholarly collection. ^A1054174 |
| 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. |
| General note | Description based on print version record |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Harem histories Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2011 9780822348580 0822348586 9780822348696 0822348691 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
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