Politics of honor in Ottoman Anatolia : sexual violence and socio-legal surveillance in the eighteenth century / / by Başak Tuğ.

• Superior document: The Ottoman empire and its heritage, v. 62
• Author: Tuğ, Başak.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage 62.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 290 pages).

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”.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Social and Legal Order in the Eighteenth Century -- Petitioning and Intervention: A Question of Power -- Banditry, Sexual Violence, and Honor -- The Repertoire of Sexual Crimes in the Courts -- The Penal Order of Eighteenth-century Anatolia -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.