[Bilimsel Haber] New Book: Women in The Ottoman Balkans

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Women in The Ottoman Balkans: Gender, Culture and History 
Amila Buturovic and Irvin Cemil Schick, eds. 
London: I.B. Tauris, 2007 
ISBN 9781845115050 
375 pp, ill. 

Publisher's blurb: 

Women in the Ottoman Balkans were founders of pious endowments, organizers
of labour and conspicuous consumers of western luxury goods; they were
lovers, wives, castaways, divorcees, widows, the subjects of ballads and
the narrators of folk tales, victims of communal oppression and protectors
of their communities against supernatural forces. In their daily lives,
they experienced oppression and self-denial in the face of frequently 
unsympathetic local customs, but also empowerment, self-affirmation, and
acculturation. 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,
culture, religion, ethnicity and nationhood. This original and 
stimulating examination of the lives of Muslim, Christian and Jewish women
in southeastern Europe during the centuries of Ottoman rule focuses
especially on those social relations that crossed ethnic and confessional
intercommunal boundaries. 

Contents: 

Introduction 
Amila Buturovic and Irvin Cemil Schick 

Eastern Concubines, Western Mistresses: Prévosts 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 Buturovic 

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 Solic 

Missing Husbands, Waiting Wives, Bosnian Muftis: Fatwa Texts and the
Interpretation of Gendered Presences and Absences in Late Ottoman Bosnia 
Selma Zecevic 
 


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