Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies,9780791444702

Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies

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ISBN13: 9780791444702
ISBN10: 0791444708
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-08-01
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary

The first to combine the study of representation, gender theory, and Muslim women from a historical and geographical perspective, this book examines where women have represented themselves in art, architecture, and the written word in the Muslim world. The authors explore the gendering and implicit power relations present in the positioning of subject and object in the visual field and look specifically at occasions when women publically adopted the stance of the viewer, speaker, writer, or patron.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
vii
Preface xi
Vision and Power: An Introduction
1(16)
D. Fairchild Ruggles
Dayfa Khatun, Regent Queen and Architectural Patron
17(18)
Yasser Tabba
Princess Safwat al-Dunya wa al-Din and the Production of Sufi Buildings and Hagiographies in Pre-Ottoman Anatolia
35(18)
Ethel Sara Wolper
Gender and Sexual Propriety in Ottoman Royal Women's Patronage
53(16)
Leslie Peirce
The Yeni Valide Mosque Complex of Eminonu, Istanbul (1597-1665): Gender and Vision in Ottoman Architecture
69(22)
Lucienne Thys-Senocak
Women's Wealth and Styles of Giving: Perspectives from Buddhist, Jain, and Mughal Sites
91(32)
Ellison Banks Findly
Gendered Patronage: Women and Benevolence during the Early Safavid Empire
123(32)
Kishwar Rizvi
Public and Private for Ottoman Women of the Nineteenth Century
155(22)
Nancy Micklewright
Mirrors Out, Mirrors In: Domestication and Rejection of the Foreign in Late-Ottoman Women's Magazines
177(28)
Elizabeth Brown Frierson
``Nothing Romantic about It!'' A Critique of Orientalist Representation in the Installations of Houria Niati
205(22)
Salah Hassan
Bibliography 227(10)
About the Authors 237(2)
Index 239

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