TY - BOOK AU - Fay,Mary Ann ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Unveiling the harem: elite women and the paradox of seclusion in eighteenth-century Cairo AV - HQ1793 .F39 2012eb U1 - 305.40962/16 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Syracuse, N.Y. PB - Syracuse University Press KW - Women KW - Egypt KW - Cairo KW - Social conditions KW - 18th century KW - Mamelukes KW - Harems KW - History KW - Households KW - Cairo (Egypt) KW - Social life and customs KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Reimagining the harem: from orientalist fantasies to historical reconstruction -- Egypt in the eighteenth century: the transition from the medieval to the early modern -- Slaves in the family: Islam, household slavery, and the construction of kinship -- The Mamluk household: how a house became a home -- Mamluk women and the Egyptian economy: a comparative perspective on women's property rights -- The city as text: space, gender, and power in Cairo -- The architecture of seclusion: in search of the historical harem -- Everyday life in the harem -- Changing the subject: gender and the history of the Mamluk revival -- Epilogue; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10634008 ER -