[Bilimsel Haber] New book: Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces

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Harem Histories: Envisioning Places and Living Spaces, Edited by
Marilyn Booth (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010).

Description

Harem Histories is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring
the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle
Eastern and North African societies, and by visitors to those
societies. One theme that threads through the collection is the
intimate interrelatedness of West and East evident in encounters
within and around the harem, whether in the elite socializing of
precolonial Tunis or the popular historical novels published in
Istanbul and Cairo from the late nineteenth century onward. Several of
the contributors focus on European culture as a repository of harem
representations, but most of them tackle indigenous representations of
home spaces and their significance for how the bodies of men and
women, and girls and boys, were distributed in social space, from
early Islamic Mecca to early-twentieth-century Cairo.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Marilyn Booth  1

I. Normative Images and Shifting Spaces

1. Early Women Exemplars and the Construction of Gendered Space:
(Re-)Defining Feminine Moral Excellence / Asma Afsaruddin  23
2. Normative Notions of Public and Private in Early Islamic Culture /
Yaseen Noorani  49
3. The Harem as Gendered Space and the Spatial Reproduction of Gender
/ Irvin Cemil Schick  69

II. Rooms and Thresholds: Harems as Spaces, Socialities, and Law

4. Caliphal Harems, Household Harems: Baghdad in the Fourth Century of
the Islamic Era / Nadia Maria El Cheikh  87
5. Domesticating Sexuality: Harem Culture in Ottoman Imperial Law /
Leslie Pierce  104
6. Panotopic Bodies: Black Eunuchs as Guardians of The Topkapi Harem /
Jateen Lad  136
7. Where Elites Meet: Harem Visits, Sea Bathing, and Sociabilities in
Precolonial Tunisia, c. 1800–1881 / Julia Clancy-Smith  177
8. The Harem as Biography: Domestic Architecture, Gender, and
Nostalgia in Modern Syria / Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh  211

III. Harems Envisioned

9. Harem/House/Set: Domestic Interiors in Photography from the Late
Ottoman World / Nancy Micklewright  239
10. Dress and Undress: Clothing and Eroticism in Nineteenth-Century
Visual Representations of the Harem / Joan DelPlato  261
11. Harems, Women, and Political Tyranny in the Works of Jurji Zaydan
/ Orit Bashkin  290
12. The Harem as the Seat of Middle-class Industry and Morality: The
Fiction of Ahmet Midhat Efendi / A. Holly Shissler  319
13. Between Harem and Houseboat: "Fallenness," Gendered Spaces, and
the Female National Subject in 1920s Egypt / Marilyn Booth  342

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