Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference

by Madeline C. Zilfi

Book Overview

Madeline C. Zilfi's book examines gender politics through slavery and social regulation in the Ottoman Empire. In a challenge to prevailing notions, her research shows that throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries female slavery was not only central to Ottoman practice, but a critical component of imperial governance and elite social reproduction. As Zilfi illustrates through her graphic accounts of the humiliations and sufferings endured...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107411459
• ISBN13: 9781107411456
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"