Politics of honor in Ottoman Anatolia sexual violence and socio-legal surveillance in the eighteenth century
In Politics of Honor, Basak Tug examines moral and gender order through the glance of legal litigations and petitions in mid-eighteenth century Anatolia. By juxtaposing the Anatolian petitionary registers, subjects' petitions, and Ankara and Bursa court records, she analyzes the institutional f...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ottoman empire and its heritage
volume 62 |
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| Summary: | In Politics of Honor, Basak Tug examines moral and gender order through the glance of legal litigations and petitions in mid-eighteenth century Anatolia. By juxtaposing the Anatolian petitionary registers, subjects' petitions, and Ankara and Bursa court records, she analyzes the institutional framework of legal scrutiny of sexual order. Through a revisionist interpretation, Tug demonstrates that a more bureaucratized system of petitioning, a farther hierarchically organized judicial review mechanism, and a more centrally organized penal system of the mid-eighteenth century reinforced the existing mechanisms of social surveillance by the community and the co-existing "discretionary authority" of the Ottoman state over sexual crimes to overcome imperial anxieties about provincial "disorder". |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 290 pages 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004266971 (hbk) 9789004338654 (ebook) |