Women in the Ottoman Balkans
Subtitle: gender, culture and history
By: edited by Amila Buturović and İrvin Cemi̇l Schick
Contributors: Buturović, Amila, 1963-; Schick, İrvin C.
Series: Library of Ottoman studies -- 15; Library of Ottoman studies -- v. 15
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the U.S.A. by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9781845115050
Subjects: Women -- Balkan Peninsula -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: value: Eastern concubines, western mistresses: Prévost's Histoire d'une Grecque moderne / Olga Augustinos; value: Persecution and perfidy: women's and men's worldviews in Pontic Greek folktales / Patricia Fann Bouteneff; value: Love and/or death? Women and conflict resolution in the traditional Bosnian ballad / Amila Buturović; value: Women founders of Pious endowments in Ottoman Bosnia / Kerima Filan; value: Jewish tobacco workers in Salonika: gender and family in the context of social and ethnic strife / Gila Hadar; value: Judicial treatment of the matrimonial problems of Christian women in Rumeli during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Svetlana Ivanova; value: Women, fashion, and Europeanization: the Romanian principalities, 1750-1830 / Angela Jianu; value: The role of women in Southeast European vampire belief / Peter Mario Kreuter; value: Christian women in an Ottoman world: interpersonal and family cases brought before the Shari'a courts during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (cases involving the Greek community) / Sophia Laiou; value: Christian maidens, Turkish ravishers: the sexualization of national conflict in the late Ottoman period / Irvin Cemil Schick; value: Women in Ottoman Bosnia as seen through the eyes of Luka Botic, a Christian poet / Mirna Šolić; value: Missing husbands, waiting wives, Bosnian Muftis: fatwa texts and the interpretation of gendered presences and absences in late Ottoman Bosnia / Selma Zečević