Unveiling the harem [electronic resource] : elite women and the paradox of seclusion in eighteenth-century Cairo / Mary Ann Fay.

By: Fay, Mary AnnContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigmsPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2012Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 331 p. : illISBN: 9780815651703 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Women -- Egypt -- Cairo -- Social conditions -- 18th century | Mamelukes -- Social conditions -- 18th century | Harems -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 18th century | Households -- Egypt -- Cairo -- History -- 18th century | Cairo (Egypt) -- Social life and customs -- 18th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.40962/16 LOC classification: HQ1793 | .F39 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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