Haremlik: Some Pages from the Life of Turkish Women : : New Introduction by Yiorgos Kalogeras / / Demetra Vaka Brown.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Brown, Demetra Vaka,
• MitwirkendeR: Kalogeras, Yiorgos D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Cultures in Dialogue: First Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)

Born as a Greek Ottoman in Istanbul, Demetra Vaka Brown (1877-1946) moved to America where she became a journalist and novelist, revisiting Turkey to write several books about the twilight of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the Turkish Republic. She based this, her first book, on experiences from 1901, when modernization had made inroads into Ottoman domestic life and the harem was becoming a thing of the past. Her reflections on life in the harem suggest the conflicted nature of her allegiances: Vaka is nostalgic for the Ottoman life that was rapidly disappearing, but she also enjoys the freedoms of a professional American woman.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CULTURES IN DIALOGUE -- SERIES ONE: OCCIDENTALISM, AND WOMEN'S WRITING -- CONTESTED, FAMILIAR AND EXOTIC SPACES: THE POLITICS OF DEMETRA VAKA BROWN'S IDENTITY -- WORKS CITED -- FURTHER READING -- NOTE -- CONTENTS -- I. COMING HOME TO TURKEY -- II . MIHIRMAH -- III. DJIMLAH, THE THINKER, SELIM PASHA'S FOURTH WIFE -- IV. VALIDÉ HANOUM,THE RESIGNED FIRST WIFE -- V. THE GIFT-WIFE FROM THE SULTAN'S PALACE -- VI. HOULMÉ HANOUM, THE DISCONTENTED -- VII. SUFFRAGETTES OF THE HAREM -- VIII. THE LOVE OF NOR-SEMBAH AND HAKIF BEY -- IX. A DAY'S ENTERTAINMENT IN THE HAREM -- X. A FLIGHT FROM THE HAREM