Politics of Honor in Ottoman Anatolia
Subtitle: Sexual Violence and Socio-Legal Surveillance in the Eighteenth Century
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9789004266971
Subjects: Turkey, history, ottoman empire, 1288-1918; Turkey, social conditions
Description: "In Politics of Honor, Başak Tuğ examines moral and gender order through the glance of legal litigations and petitions in mid-eighteenth century Anatolia. By juxtaposing the Anatolian petitionary registers, subjects' petitions, and Ankara and Bursa court records, she analyzes the institutional framework of legal scrutiny of sexual order. Through a revisionist interpretation, Tuğ demonstrates that a more bureaucratized system of petitioning, a farther hierarchically organized judicial review mechanism, and a more centrally organized penal system of the mid-eighteenth century reinforced the existing mechanisms of social surveillance by the community and the co-existing 'discretionary authority' of the Ottoman state over sexual crimes to overcome imperial anxieties about provincial 'disorder'"--Provided by publisher.