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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| Series: | Ottoman empire and its heritage
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Table of Contents:
- Social and legal order in the eighteenth century
- Justice, imperial public order, and Ottoman politico- judicial authority
- Oligarchic rule and local notables in the eighteenth century
- The Kanun as legal practice in the eighteenth century
- Petitioning and intervention : a question of power
- The imperial council and petitions as a reflection of imperial law in legal practice
- Petitionary (Ahkam) registers and socio-legal surveillance
- Reporting sexual violence
- Actors, strategies, and rhetoric
- Petitions as a mirror of local cleavages
- Banditry, sexual violence, and honor
- Sexual violence as a sign of "habituation" to violence
- Sexual violence, honor, and the Imperial State
- The repertoire of sexual crimes in the courts
- Why fiil-i seni? (Indecent Act), but not zina
- Other expressions used in the registers to describe sexual assaults
- The penal order of eighteenth-century Anatolia
- The enigma of crimes and punishment in the court records
- Social and institutional limits to the authority of local judges
- Under whose discretion was sexual and moral order?
- In lieu of conclusion: Silence and outcry in the records