Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab

by Leslie P. Peirce, Karen Seccombe

"For undergraduate courses in the sociology of the family."Focuses on studying the family through a sociological lens.Families and Their Social Worlds discusses how the family is viewed on a macro level, by examining policies in place and how those policies impact families. The author encourages students to think about families beyond their own personal experiences, and even beyond family structure in the United States. Her goal is to impart a passion for critical thinking as students see that families exist within social worlds. Important policy considerations are imbedded in each chapter to illustrate what is currently being done, and perhaps even more importantly, what "can" be done to strengthen families and intimate relationships.

Genres: History, Law, Gender

530 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Leslie P. Peirce is an American professor in history. Her research interests include early modern history of the Ottoman Empire, gender, law, and society. She received her B.A. in History from Harvard College, her M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, and her Ph.D. (1988) in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University. In 1988–1998 she was with the Cornell University. In 1998–2006 she was professor in the Departments of History and Near Eastern Studies the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2006 she is with Department of History and the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies of the New York University, where she is the Silver Professor of History.

Reviews

[Jeremy Gold · Rating 3 out of 5]

More than you’ll ever need to know about 1540-1541 in the Ottoman Court of the provincial capital Aintab. Fun read!

Some good nuggets buried in the four hundred non-endnote pages—The bit about the questionably heretical multi-generational female classes+trances+dances that resulted in a death by defenestration was especially wild

[Liz Mennitt · Rating 4 out of 5]

great book, but it could have been just as great and also 100 pages shorter