| Description |
xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : writing change : Middle Eastern and western women in dialogue -- Photo essay : viewing each other : visual dialogues -- 1. The city of the sultan; and the domestic manners of the Turks in 1836 / Julia Pardoe -- 2. The Englishwoman in Egypt : letters from Cairo / Sophia Lane Poole -- 3. The 'English governess' in Egypt : harem life in Egypt and Constantinople / Emmeline Lott -- 4. Turkish harems and Circassian homes / Annie Jane Harvey -- 5. Thirty years in the harem; or, the autobiography of Melek-Hanum, wife of H. H. Kibrizli-Mehmet-Pasha; (1873) six years in Europe : sequel to thirty years in the Harem : the autobiographical notes of Melek-Hanum, wife of H. H. Kibrizli-Mehmet-Pasha / Melek Hanum -- 6. A voyage in the 'sunbeam', our home on the ocean for eleven months; (1880) sunshine and storm in the East, or cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople; (1883) unpublished journal / Annie Lady Brassey -- 7. Haremlik : some pages from the life of Turkish women / Demetra Vaka Brown -- 8. A Turkish woman's European impressions / Zeyneb Hanoum -- 9. The women of Egypt / Elizabeth Cooper -- 10. An Englishwoman in a Turkish harem / Grace Ellison -- 11. The imperial harem of the sultans : daily life at the Ciragan palace during late 19th century, memoirs of Leyla (Saz) Hanimefendi / Leyla Saz Hanimefendi -- 12. Harem years : the memoirs of an Egyptian feminist (1879-1924) / Huda Shaarawi -- 13. Memoirs of Halide Edib / Halide Edib (Adivar) -- 14. Moslem women enter a new world / Ruth Frances Woodsmall -- 15. Arabesque / Musbah Haidar -- 16. Three centuries : family chronicles of Turkey and Egypt / Emine Foat Tugay |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-29) and index |
| Subject |
Liberty.
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Women -- Middle East -- History -- Sources.
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| Author |
Lewis, Reina, 1963-
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Micklewright, Nancy.
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| LC no. |
2006298002 |
| ISBN |
1860649564 (hbk.) |
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1860649572 (paperback) |
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