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Unveiling the harem elite women and the paradox of seclusion in eighteenth-century Cairo /

Основен автор: Fay, Mary Ann.
Автор-организации: Project Muse.
Формат: Електронен
Език: English
Публикувано: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2012.
Издание: 1st ed.
Серия: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=714574
Подобни документи: Print version:: Unveiling the harem.
Съдържание:
  • Reimagining the harem: from orientalist fantasies to historical reconstruction
  • Egypt in the eighteenth century: the transition from the medieval to the early modern
  • Slaves in the family: Islam, household slavery, and the construction of kinship
  • The Mamluk household: how a house became a home
  • Mamluk women and the Egyptian economy: a comparative perspective on women's property rights
  • The city as text: space, gender, and power in Cairo
  • The architecture of seclusion: in search of the historical harem
  • Everyday life in the harem
  • Changing the subject: gender and the history of the Mamluk revival
  • Epilogue.