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History Baltic States

Women in the Ottoman Balkans

Gender, Culture and History

edited by Amila Buturovic & Irvin Cemil Schick

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Initial publish date
Oct 2007
Category
Baltic States
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781845115050
    Publish Date
    Oct 2007
    List Price
    $104

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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, divorcées, 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 customs, but also empowerment, self-affirmation, and acculturation.&nbsp This volume not only deepens our understanding of the distinctive contributions that women have made to Balkan history but also re-evaluates this through a more inclusive and interdisciplinary analysis in which gender takes its place alongside other categories such as class, culture, religion, ethnicity and nationhood.

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Contributor Notes

Irvin C. Schick is a researcher at MIT. He is the author of 'The Erotic Margin: Sexuality and Spatiality in Alteritist Discourse' and 'The Fair Circassian: Adventures of an Orientalist Motif'.&nbsp Amila Buturovic is Associate Professor at York University, Toronto and author of 'Stone Speakers: Medieval Tombs, Landscape, and Nationhood in the Poetry of Mak Dizdar'.