Description
In the West, when one thinks about the concepts such as the harem and Oriental women, there are unfortunately a couple of stock images that come to mind. Shaped Shaped by centuries-old orientalist attitudes, Eastern women were thought to be prisoners in the harems much like birds in gilded cages, devoid of any rights or say. Sensualized images of the harem where women were believed to be sequestered for male pleasure only added to the demeaning portrayal of women in the East. This book is a study of the often misunderstood lives of Eastern women in Ottoman harems. Based predominantly on nineteenth century British womens travel accounts, this detailed but easy-to-read archival investigation sheds a fresh light on womens misunderstood place in Ottoman society. As a challenge to the dominant orientalist discourse, this study details real lives of Ottoman women behind the myth of the Ottoman harem.
About the Author
She was born in 1982 in the Taskopru region of the northern Anatolian province of Kastamonu. After completing her bachelor degree at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara she went to study at the Illinois State University as a Fulbright scholar, completing her post graduate study in English language and literature in 2006. Later, she completed her PhD in 2014 on Orientalist Discourses Western Representations of the Ottoman Society, Eastern Women and the Harem in Nineteenth Century Travel Writing, Fiction, and Art at the same university. She taught classes in the area of her expertise at the Illinois State University between 2007 and 2013 and at the State University of New York at Geneseo in 2013 and 2014. Since 2015, shes been working as an academic at the Social Sciences University of Ankara Faculty of Foreign Languages Department of English Language and Literature. She has administered and presented papers at leading international conferences such as MLA, MMLA and NeMLA. In addition to her main expertise on 19th century English Literature, the academic also studies Ottoman Post Tanzimat Era history and literature, post colonialism, women studies, Woman in the Ottoman Empire and Islam, media and cinema, and the other in the context of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. She is married and the mother of a very cute girl.
Book Information
ISBN 9789752439375
Author Filiz Barin Akman
Format Hardback
Page Count 111
Imprint Kopernik
Publisher Kopernik
Weight(grams) 244g
About the Author
She was born in 1982 in the Taskopru region of the northern Anatolian province of Kastamonu. After completing her bachelor degree at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara she went to study at the Illinois State University as a Fulbright scholar, completing her post graduate study in English language and literature in 2006. Later, she completed her PhD in 2014 on Orientalist Discourses Western Representations of the Ottoman Society, Eastern Women and the Harem in Nineteenth Century Travel Writing, Fiction, and Art at the same university. She taught classes in the area of her expertise at the Illinois State University between 2007 and 2013 and at the State University of New York at Geneseo in 2013 and 2014. Since 2015, shes been working as an academic at the Social Sciences University of Ankara Faculty of Foreign Languages Department of English Language and Literature. She has administered and presented papers at leading international conferences such as MLA, MMLA and NeMLA. In addition to her main expertise on 19th century English Literature, the academic also studies Ottoman Post Tanzimat Era history and literature, post colonialism, women studies, Woman in the Ottoman Empire and Islam, media and cinema, and the other in the context of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. She is married and the mother of a very cute girl.
Book Information
ISBN 9789752439375
Author Filiz Barin Akman
Format Hardback
Page Count 111
Imprint Kopernik
Publisher Kopernik
Weight(grams) 244g
