[Download free pdf] The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (Studies in Middle Eastern History)
✿ Leslie P. Peirce ✿
| #181110 in Books | imusti | 1993-09-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.06 x.78 x9.25l,1.21 | File Name: 0195086775 | 400 pages | Oxford University Press USA
||29 of 29 people found the following review helpful.| Women and Power within the Ottoman Empire.|By Michael Valdivielso|First off the book explains WHY female harems existed in the first place. The simple answer is this. If the sovereign gets married to a Princess of another power that power could lay claim to the throne. BUT if he has offspring with a bunch of slaves, women who are not of the Muslim faith and are not linked|||"The harem described in Leslie P. Peirce's fascinating book is not the lascivious sexual playground conceived by the Western imagination but the locus of power in the Ottoman empire...The general thesis of this outstanding book--that the power wielded by the
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...
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