• Unveiling the harem : elite women and the paradox of seclusion in eighteenth-century Cairo
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: elite women and the paradox of seclusion in eighteenth-century Cairo
    [NT 47261] Author: FayMary Ann,
    [NT 47356] Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: Syracuse, N.Y.
    [NT 47263] Published: Syracuse University Press;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: c2012
    [NT 50960] Edition: 1st ed.
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (344 p.).
    [NT 47298] Series: Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
    [NT 47266] Subject: Households - History - Egypt - 18th century -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Harems - History - Egypt - 18th century -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Mamelukes - Social conditions - 18th century -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Women - Social conditions - Egypt - 18th century -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Cairo (Egypt) - Social life and customs - 18th century -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780815651703/
    [NT 47265] Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780815651703electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0815651708electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780815632931hbk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0815632932hbk.
    [NT 60779] Content Note: 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 ahouse beclmea 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 thesubject: gender and the history of the Mamluk revival -- Epilogue
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