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- catalog abstract "The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries, which ranged from loyal devotion to armed opposition. By examining political action in the context of household networks, the author demonstrates that female power was a logical, indeed an intended, consequence of political structures. Royal women were custodians of sovereign power, training their sons in its use and exercising it directly as regents when necessary. Furthermore, they played central roles in the public culture of sovereignty--royal ceremonial, monumental building, and patronage of artistic production. This text argues that the exercise of political power was tied to definitions of sexuality. Within the dynasty, the hierarchy of female power, like the hierarchy of male power, reflected the broader society's control for social control of the sexually active.".
- catalog contributor b4588847.
- catalog coverage "Turkey History 1453-1683.".
- catalog coverage "Turkey Kings and rulers Wives History.".
- catalog coverage "Turkey Kings and rulers Wives.".
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-361) and index.".
- catalog description "The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries, which ranged from loyal devotion to armed opposition. By examining political action in the context of household networks, the author demonstrates that female power was a logical, indeed an intended, consequence of political structures. Royal women were custodians of sovereign power, training their sons in its use and exercising it directly as regents when necessary. Furthermore, they played central roles in the public culture of sovereignty--royal ceremonial, monumental building, and patronage of artistic production. This text argues that the exercise of political power was tied to definitions of sexuality. Within the dynasty, the hierarchy of female power, like the hierarchy of male power, reflected the broader society's control for social control of the sexually active.".
- catalog extent "xii, 374 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195076737 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in Middle Eastern history (New York, N.Y.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in Middle Eastern history".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Turkey History 1453-1683.".
- catalog spatial "Turkey Kings and rulers Wives History.".
- catalog spatial "Turkey Kings and rulers Wives.".
- catalog spatial "Turkey".
- catalog subject "305.42/09561 20".
- catalog subject "Favorites, Royal Turkey History.".
- catalog subject "HQ1240.5.T87 P45 1993".
- catalog subject "Harems.".
- catalog subject "Women Political activity Turkey History.".
- catalog subject "Women Turkey Social conditions.".
- catalog title "The imperial harem : women and sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire / Leslie P. Peirce.".
- catalog type "text".