1. Mapping Modern Bodies in the Middle East: Introduction / Reina Lewis and Yasmine Nachabe Taan -- 2. Fashion and the camera: Istanbul in the late Ottoman Empire / Nancy Micklewright -- 3. Training Slaves for the Camera: Race and Memory in Representations of Slaves, Cairo and Khartoum, 1882-92 / Eve M. Troutt Powell -- 4. Patronage, Taste, and Power: Slave, Manumitted, and Free Subjects in the Fashioning of Middle Eastern Modernity / Reina Lewis -- 5. Constantin Guys and the Painters of Global Modernity / Mary Roberts -- 6. Looking at/as Nudes: A Study of a Space of Imagination / Kirsten Scheid -- 7. Another Look: "The Body that Is," Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Post-Ottoman Egypt / Wilson Chacko Jacob -- 8. The Arab Garçonne: Being Simultaneously Modern and Arab in 1920s and 1930s Palestine, Lebanon, and Egypt / Yasmine Nachabe Taan -- 9. The Photograph, the Dress, and the Conjugalization of the Family / Afsaneh Najmabadi.
Summary:
"Explores the role of the dressed and undressed body in the making of the modern Middle East, from perspectives such as nation, gender, post-colonialism and historiography"-- Provided by publisher.
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