Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. I NORMATIVE IMAGES AND SHIFTING SPACES
5. one Early Women Exemplars and the Construction of Gendered Space 21
6. two Normative Notions of Public and Private in Early Islamic Culture 49
7. three The Harem as Gendered Space and the Spatial Reproduction of Gender 69
8. II ROOMS AND THRESHOLDS
9. four Caliphal Harems, Household Harems 85
10. five Domesticating Sexuality HAREM CULTURE IN OTTOMAN IMPERIAL LAW 104
11. six Panoptic Bodies 136
12. seven Where Elites Meet 177
13. eight The Harem as Biography 211
14. III HAREMS ENVISIONED
15. nine Harem/House/Set 237
16. ten Dress and Undress 261
17. eleven Harems, Women, and Political Tyranny in the Works of Jurji Zaydan 290
18. twelve The Harem as the Seat of Middle-class Industry and Morality 319
19. thirteen Between Harem and Houseboat 342
20. Bibliography 375
21. Contributors 401
22. Index 405