Politics of Honor in Ottoman Anatolia : Sexual Violence and Socio-legal Surveillance in the Eighteenth Century
Politics of Honor in Ottoman Anatolia :
Sexual Violence and Socio-legal Surveillance in the Eighteenth Century
by Basak Tug
English | 2017 | ISBN: 9004266976 | 301 Pages | PDF | 6.1 MB
Sexual Violence and Socio-legal Surveillance in the Eighteenth Century
by Basak Tug
English | 2017 | ISBN: 9004266976 | 301 Pages | PDF | 6.1 MB
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 framework of legal scrutiny of sexual order. Through a revisionist interpretation, Tug demonstrates that a more bureaucratized system of petitioning, a farther hierarchically organized judicial review mechanism, and a more centrally organized penal system of the mid-eighteenth century reinforced the existing mechanisms of social surveillance by the community and the co-existing "discretionary authority" of the Ottoman state over sexual crimes to overcome imperial anxieties about provincial "disorder."
Basak Tug, Ph.D. (2009), New York University, is Assistant Professor at Istanbul Bilgi University. She has published articles on gender, sexuality and politics in the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.