TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Demetra Vaka
AU  - Kalogeras,Yiorgos D.
TI  - Haremlik: Some Pages from the Life of Turkish Women: New Introduction by Yiorgos Kalogeras 
T2  - Cultures in Dialogue: First Series
SN  - 9781463210052
AV  - HQ1726.7 .V353 2004
U1  - 301.41209496 23
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - Women
KW  - Turkey
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CULTURES IN DIALOGUE --; SERIES ONE: OCCIDENTALISM, AND WOMEN'S WRITING --; CONTESTED, FAMILIAR AND EXOTIC SPACES: THE POLITICS OF DEMETRA VAKA BROWN'S IDENTITY --; WORKS CITED --; FURTHER READING --; NOTE --; CONTENTS --; I. COMING HOME TO TURKEY --; II . MIHIRMAH --; III. DJIMLAH, THE THINKER, SELIM PASHA'S FOURTH WIFE --; IV. VALIDÉ HANOUM,THE RESIGNED FIRST WIFE --; V. THE GIFT-WIFE FROM THE SULTAN'S PALACE --; VI. HOULMÉ HANOUM, THE DISCONTENTED --; VII. SUFFRAGETTES OF THE HAREM --; VIII. THE LOVE OF NOR-SEMBAH AND HAKIF BEY --; IX. A DAY'S ENTERTAINMENT IN THE HAREM --; X. A FLIGHT FROM THE HAREM; restricted access
N2  - Born as a Greek Ottoman in Istanbul, Demetra Vaka Brown (1877-1946) moved to America where she became a journalist and novelist, revisiting Turkey to write several books about the twilight of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the Turkish Republic. She based this, her first book, on experiences from 1901, when modernization had made inroads into Ottoman domestic life and the harem was becoming a thing of the past. Her reflections on life in the harem suggest the conflicted nature of her allegiances: Vaka is nostalgic for the Ottoman life that was rapidly disappearing, but she also enjoys the freedoms of a professional American woman
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463210052
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463210052
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463210052/original
ER  -