Relics of an Unwanted Past: Slavery, Polygamy, and the Harem at the End of the Ottoman Empire
(2023)
Journal Article
Karamursel, C. (online). Relics of an Unwanted Past: Slavery, Polygamy, and the Harem at the End of the Ottoman Empire. Gender and History, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12755
This article traces the ways in which the newly inaugurated Turkish Republic dealt with such institutional and legal ‘relics’ as the imperial harem, slavery and polygamy, that it inherited from its immediate, largely undesirable imperial past, condem... Read More about Relics of an Unwanted Past: Slavery, Polygamy, and the Harem at the End of the Ottoman Empire.