02433    a2200421   4500001001100000005001700011008004100028020002200069037003600091040000700127041000800134072001300142072001500155072001500170072001600185072001500201072001500216072001400231072001400245072001500259072001400274072001400288072001300302072001500315072002100330072002100351072002100372072002100393072002100414072002600435100001600461245005200477250000600529260003200535300001000567520141900577999001501996104031327220250328151431.0250324022025GB        88           eng    a9781040313275qEA  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 21.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aN2thema7 aNHG2thema7 aNHD2thema7 aNHTB2thema7 aGTM2thema7 a1FB2bisac7 a3M2bisac7 aHBLH2bic7 aHBJF12bic7 aHBJD2bic7 aHBTB2bic7 aGTB2bic7 a1FB2bisac7 aHIS0000002bisac7 aHIS0370402bisac7 aHIS0370502bisac7 aHIS0370902bisac7 aHIS0420002bisac7 a920.72095610152bisac1 aRuth Miller10aTwenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Ottoman Empire  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20250326  a442 p  bTwenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Ottoman Empire is a tale of how women’s triumphs as well as their failures shaped a global society—not despite, but because of, gender. The Ottoman Empire was among the longest-lived polities in history, stretching between the thirteenth and twentieth centuries across three continents, several seas, and scores of cities, deserts, mountain ranges, rivers, and forests. This volume provides a compendium of idiosyncratic life stories and explores how women from these eras and regions understood the shape of the world in which they lived, and how they brought their consciousness of their gender to their efforts to re-shape it. Among the questions explored in the book are how women have negotiated and constructed the public and private spheres, how to define “women’s speech” in a world mediated by men and male-dominated genres and institutions, and how women experienced their bodies as sites of politically inflected reproduction, death and decay. The book is thus an accessibly offbeat feminist overview of the field of Ottoman History that provides students, scholars, general readers, and non-specialists with insights into the lives and work of both ordinary Ottoman women and celebrated Ottoman women, women who failed despite their best efforts and women who succeeded against all odds—suicides, spies and murderers as well as queens, scientists and poets.  c8892d8892