IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1320: The 'Other' Women: Aspects of the Harem
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Ann R. Christys, Independent Scholar, Leeds |
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Moderator/Chair: | Ann R. Christys, Independent Scholar, Leeds |
Respondent: | Leslie Brubaker, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies / Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, University of Birmingham |
Paper 1320-a | The Abbasid Harem: Fantasy versus Reality (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Women's Studies |
Paper 1320-b | The 'Other' Female Voice in The Arabian Nights (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Women's Studies |
Paper 1320-c | The Public Sphere during the Abbasid Period, 750-1258 AD: The Role of Sufi Women (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Social History, Women's Studies |
Abstract | The first paper will contrast orientalist representations of the Abbasid harem with accounts by medieval Arab historians, showing how residents of the harem, slaves, and members of the caliphal family used the means available to them to circumvent an oppressive space. The second paper will examine the multivalent significance of the voice of Dunyazad, Scheherazade's sister, in The Arabian Nights in structuring the tales and her depiction as 'other' both textually and visually within the wider context of medieval Arab female voices. The third speaker examines the role of women in the public sphere during the later Abbasid period. |