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Morality tales : law and gender in the Ottoman court of Aintab / / Leslie Peirce



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Autore: Peirce Leslie P Visualizza persona
Titolo: Morality tales : law and gender in the Ottoman court of Aintab / / Leslie Peirce Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA, : University of California Press, c2003
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (491 p.)
Disciplina: 346.56101/34
Soggetto topico: Women (Islamic law) - Turkey - History
Sex and law - History
Soggetto non controllato: 16th century
administrative
analysis
anatolian
class issues
community
court cases
courtroom
domestic
family issues
family life
gender issues
justice
law
legal issues
local justice
middle east
middle eastern
morality
ottoman empire
power relations
power
property
punishment
self representation
social hierarchy
sultan
violence
Classificazione: EH 5384
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-452) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Maps -- Introduction -- Part One. The Setting: Aintab and Its Court -- Part Two. Gender and the Terrain of Local Justice -- Part Three. Law, Community, and the State -- Part Four. Making Justice at the Court of Aintab -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In this skillful analysis, Leslie Peirce delves into the life of a sixteenth-century Middle Eastern community, bringing to light the ways that women and men used their local law court to solve personal, family, and community problems. Examining one year's proceedings of the court of Aintab, an Anatolian city that had recently been conquered by the Ottoman sultanate, Peirce argues that local residents responded to new opportunities and new constraints by negotiating flexible legal practices. Their actions and the different compromises they reached in court influenced how society viewed gender and also created a dialogue with the ruling regime over mutual rights and obligations. Locating its discussion of gender and legal issues in the context of the changing administrative practices and shifting power relations of the period, Morality Tales argues that it was only in local interpretation that legal rules acquired vitality and meaning.
Titolo autorizzato: Morality tales  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786612758942
0-520-92697-8
1-59734-762-0
1-282-75894-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996248183103316
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