The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire by Leslie P. Peirce

The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire

Leslie P. Peirce

400 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction gender history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 contemp...

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