Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire - The Design of Difference

Klappentext This book examines gender politics through slavery and social regulation in the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Zusammenfassung This book examines gender politics through slavery and social regulation in the Ottoman Empire. In a challenge to prevailing notions! it shows that throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries female slavery was not only central to Ottoman practice! but a critical component of imperial governance and elite social reproduction. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; 1. Empire and imperium; 2. Currents of change; 3. Women and the regulated society; 4. Telling the Ottoman slave story; 5. Meaning and practice; 6. Feminizing slavery; 7. Men are kanun, women are shari'ah.

Product details

• Authors: Madeline Zilfi, Madeline C. Zilfi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2012
• EAN: 9781107411456
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41145-6
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic C
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous