Unveiling the harem : elite women and the paradox of seclusion in eighteenth-century Cairo / / Mary Ann Fay.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Fay, Mary Ann.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
• Physical Description: xvii, 331 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• Reimagining the harem: from orientalist fantasies to historical reconstruction
• Egypt in the eighteenth century: the transition from the medieval to the early modern
• Slaves in the family: Islam, household slavery, and the construction of kinship
• The Mamluk household: how a house became a home
• Mamluk women and the Egyptian economy: a comparative perspective on women's property rights
• The city as text: space, gender, and power in Cairo
• The architecture of seclusion: in search of the historical harem
• Everyday life in the harem
• Changing the subject: gender and the history of the Mamluk revival
• Epilogue.