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Women in the Ottoman Balkans: Gender, Culture and History (Library of Ottoman Studies)

By Amila Buturovic , Irvin Cemil Schick

Book information

Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Year
2007
ISBN
1845115058, 9781845115050
Open Library ID
OL11911317M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4773150 bytes)
Pages
375\385
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Women in the Ottoman Balkans were founders of pious endowments, organizers of labour and conspicuous consumers of western luxury goods; they were lovers, wives, castaways, divorc?©es, widows, the subjects of ballads and the narrators of folk tales, victims of communal oppression and protectors of their communities against supernatural forces. In their daily lives they experienced oppression and self-denial in the face of frequently unsympathetic local customs, but also empowerment, self-affirmation, and acculturation.  This volume not only deepens our understanding of the distinctive contributions that women have made to Balkan history but also re-evaluates this through a more inclusive and interdisciplinary analysis in which gender takes its place alongside other categories such as class, culture, religion, ethnicity and nationhood.

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