TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fay,Mary Ann
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Unveiling the harem: elite women and the paradox of seclusion in eighteenth-century Cairo 
T2  - Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms
SN  - 9780815651703
AV  - HQ1793 .F39 2012
U1  - 305.40962/16 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Syracuse, N.Y.
PB  - Syracuse University Press
KW  - Households
KW  - Egypt
KW  - Cairo
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Harems
KW  - Mamelukes
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Women
KW  - Cairo (Egypt)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Reimagining the harem: from orientalist fantasies to historical reconstruction -- Egypt in the eighteenth century: the transition from the medieval to the early modern -- Slaves in the family: Islam, household slavery, and the construction of kinship -- The Mamluk household: how a house became a home -- Mamluk women and the Egyptian economy: a comparative perspective on women's property rights -- The city as text: space, gender, and power in Cairo -- The architecture of seclusion: in search of the historical harem -- Everyday life in the harem -- Changing the subject: gender and the history of the Mamluk revival -- Epilogue
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780815651703/
ER  -