Early women exemplars and the construction of gendered space : (re-)defining feminine moral excellence / Asma Afsaruddin -- Normative notions of public and private in early Islamic culture / Yaseen Noorani -- The harem as gendered space and the spatial reproduction of gender / İrvin Cemil Schick -- Caliphal harems, household harems : Baghdad in the fourth century of the Islamic Era / Nadia Maria El Cheikh -- Domesticating sexuality : harem culture in Ottoman imperial law / Leslie Peirce -- Panoptic bodies : black eunuchs as guardians of the topkapi harem / Jateen Lad -- Where elites meet : harem visits, sea bathing, and sociabilities in precolonial Tunisia, c. 1800-1881 / Julia Clancy-Smith -- The harem as biography : domestic architecture, gender, and nostalgia in modern Syria / Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh -- Harem/house/set : domestic interiors in photography from the late Ottoman world / Nancy Micklewright -- Dress and undress : clothing and eroticism in nineteenth-century visual representations of the harem / Joan DelPlato -- Harems, women, and political tyranny in the works of Jurji Zaydan / Orit Bashkin -- The harem as the seat of middle-class industry and morality : the fiction of Ahmet Midhat Efendi / A. Holly Shissler -- Between harem and houseboat : "fallenness," gendered spaces, and the female national subject in 1920s Egypt / Marilyn Booth.
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