Politics of Honor in Ottoman Anatolia - Sexual Violence and Socio-Legal Surveillance in the Eighteenth Century

In Politics of Honor Başak Tuğ examines moral and gender order of mid-eighteenth-century Anatolia through petitions and court records to reveal the new and existing mechanisms of social surveillance to overcome imperial anxieties about provincial "disorder".

About the author

Başak Tuğ, Ph.D. (2009), New York University, is Assistant Professor at İstanbul Bilgi University. She has published articles on gender, sexuality and politics in the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Tu&, Ba&ak Tu&287;
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.02.2017
• EAN: 9789004266971
• ISBN: 978-90-04-26697-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 563 g
• Series: Ottoman Empire and Its Heritag
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous