Women in the Ottoman Balkans: Gender, Culture and History

by Amila Buturović

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, divorcees, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845115058
• ISBN13: 9781845115050
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"