Kniha Imperial Harem Leslie P. Peirce

Imperial Harem

Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire

Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Brožovaná
Dostupnosť: Skladom u dodávateľa
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The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth cen...

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Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydalo
1994
Stránok
394
EAN
9780195086775
ISBN
0195086775
Enbook ID
04513272
Hmotnosť
604
Rozmery
157 x 234 x 13

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The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries, which ranged from loyal devotion to armed opposition. By examining political action in the context of household networks, Leslie Peirce demonstrates that female power was a logical, indeed an intended, consequence of political structures. Royal women were custodians of sovereign power, training their sons in its use and exercising it directly as regents when necessary. Furthermore, they played central roles in the public culture of sovereignty--royal ceremonial, monumental building, and patronage of artistic production. The Imperial Harem argues that the exercise of political power was tied to definitions of sexuality. Within the dynasty, the hierarchy of female power, like the hierarchy of male power, reflected the broader society's concern for social control of the sexually active.

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