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Article: Rethinking Orientalism.(Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- December 1, 2004
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Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem By Reina Lewis published by IB TAURIS ISBN 1 86064 730 8 price 14.95 [pounds sterling] paperback
These eyewitness accounts from inside the Ottoman harem are the first full-length study in English of these previously neglected voices. At the turn of the 20th century, the image of the women of the Ottoman harem remained a potent mystery to the West--creating a market for memoirs and autobiographies relayed by western women travellers and also for the ...
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Article: Peirce, Leslie Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman ...
History: Review of New Books;
January 1, 2004 ;
700+ words
... ... brought with it both economic prosperity and ideological contestation. Leslie Peirce, the author of an earlier study on the Ottoman harem, uses the documentation of the court registers, supplemented by sources such as a series of sixteenth-century cadastral ...
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