Women, gender, and the palace households in Ottoman Tunisia
By: by Amy Aisen Kallander
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780292748385
Subjects: Politics and government; Courts and courtiers; Kings and rulers; Women; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references  (p. 239-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Family foundations of Ottoman rule; title: Introduction. Families, households, and palace women in early modern court culture; title: Family and the politics of marriage: the early Ottoman era in Tunis (1574/1756); title: Part II. Family and provincial government, 1756/1840; title: The prosperous palace; title: Women's worlds; title: Beyond Bardo; title: Part III. Nineteenth-century transformations; title: The constitution, financial reform, and the modern family; title: Inventing dynastic traditions: family politics of French colonialism; title: Conclusion.