Format:
Online-Ressource (xv, 460 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520228928
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0520228901
Content:
In this skillful analysis, Leslie Peirce delves into the life of a sixteenth-century Middle Eastern community, bringing to light the ways that women and men used their local law court to solve personal, family, and community problems. Examining one year's proceedings of the court of Aintab, an Anatolian city that had recently been conquered by the Ottoman sultanate, Peirce argues that local residents responded to new opportunities and new constraints by negotiating flexible legal practices. Their actions and the different compromises they reached in court influenced how society viewed gender a
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-452) and index
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Cover; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION; Introduction; PART I. THE SETTING: AINTAB AND ITS COURT; 1. Locating Aintab in Space and Time; 2. The People of Aintab and Their World; 3. Introducing the Court of Aintab; PART II. GENDER AND THE TERRAIN OF LOCAL JUSTICE; İne's Story: A Child Marriage in Trouble; 4. Gender, Class, and Social Hierarchy; 5. Morality and Self-Representation at Court; 6. Women, Property, and the Court; PART III. LAW, COMMUNITY, AND THE STATE; Haciye Sabah's Story: A Teacher on Trial
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7. Negotiating Legitimacy through the Law8. Punishment, Violence, and the Court; PART IV. MAKING JUSTICE AT THE COURT OF AINTAB; Fatma's Story: The Dilemma of a Pregnant Peasant Girl; Conclusion; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520228924
Additional Edition:
Print version Morality Tales : Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab
Language:
English
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