<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Irene Kamberidou</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">'Wo-manity' in the yoke of the harem: European women travel writers, authors and journalists of the 17th, 18th , 19th and early 20th centuries</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Presentation at Media, Religion and Gender in Europe: RISECI –Religion in the Shaping of European Cultural Identity”, with the support of the Culture programme of the European Union, Barcelona Spain</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">13 June</style></date></pub-dates></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">University Ramon Llull, Blanquerna Faculty of Communication and International Relations, Blanquerna Observatory of Media, Religion and Culture, Barcelona, Spain</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Barcelona, University Ramon Llull</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Presentation at “Media, Religion and Gender in Europe: RISECI –Religion in the Shaping of European Cultural Identity”, organized by the &lt;strong&gt;Blanquerna Faculty of Communication and International Relations, University Ramon Llull&lt;/strong&gt;, with the support of the Culture programme of the European Union, Barcelona, June 13, 2014.&lt;br&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT------------------------------&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; A cross-examination of the personal accounts of 210 women travelers and harem inmates of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries in Asia Minor, Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Africa and other occupied Ottoman territories “the real position of women in the religious system of Islam” (Garnett, 1895: 61). Women travelers from England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria and America succeeded in doing what no male traveler, no man, had been able to do before or after them.&amp;nbsp; They surpassed the socio-religious barriers of Islam and penetrated into the gendered sphere and gendered boundaries of the Ottoman family/household, in other words the multiethnic harems of all the socioeconomic classes in Ottoman society. In contrast to their male counterparts, European and American women identify with the so-called&amp;nbsp; “Other” &amp;nbsp;using terms such as “Privileged Rape”, “Slavedom”, “Womanity”, “Woman-kind”, “Liberty”, “Freedom”, “Emancipation”, “Rape”, etc. They discuss the legal position and social privileges of free Muslim women and that of their islamized slaves, who were enslaved women and children of different nations. Namely, the female accounts focus on women’s legal rights with regard to marriage, divorce, child custody, inheritance, veiling or imposed covering of the Muslim female’s face and body, Ottoman sexual politics, among other things.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Calibri;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;MME, ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΦΥΛΟ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΥΡΩΠΗ: Η ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑ ΣΤΗ ΔΙΑΜΟΡΦΩΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΤΙΚΗΣ ΤΑΥΤΟΤΗΤΑΣ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Calibri;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;**&lt;strong&gt;Irene Kamberidou (2014). &quot;Wo-manity&quot; in the yoke of the harem:&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Calibri;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;European women travel writers, authors and journalists &lt;br&gt; of the 17&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt; , 18&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;, 19&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt; and early 20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt; centuries. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Dr. &lt;strong&gt;Caroline Wilson&lt;/strong&gt;, Duoda, Woen’s Research Centre, University of Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Dr. &lt;strong&gt;Silvia Planas&lt;/strong&gt;, Director of History of Jews Museum and Institute Nahmanides in Girona.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Dr. &lt;strong&gt;Mia Lovheim,&lt;/strong&gt; Professor of Sociology of Religion, Univerisy of Upsala&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Dr. &lt;strong&gt;Emiliana di Blasio&lt;/strong&gt;, professor of sociology, Rome&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Dr. &lt;strong&gt;Gaspar Martinez&lt;/strong&gt;, Professor of Votproa Tjeppgu Faculty &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Dr. &lt;strong&gt;Joanna Sumiala&lt;/strong&gt;, Universioty of Helsinki&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Dr. &lt;strong&gt;Jordi Sanchez&lt;/strong&gt;, Deputy Director of Blanquerna Observatory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Calibri;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Riseci.eu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Calibri;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;University Ramon Llull&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Calibri;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Media, Religion and Gender in Europe/ MME, ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΦΥΛΟ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΥΡΩΠΗ (Barcelona, June 13, 2014), RISECI –Religion in the Shaping of European Cultural Identity/ Η ΘΡΗΣΚΕΙΑ ΣΤΗ ΔΙΑΜΟΡΦΩΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΤΙΚΗΣ ΤΑΥΤΟΤΗΤΑΣ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;The Dean, Dr. Joseph M. Carbonell, Dean of the Blanquerna Faculty of Communication and International Relations, University Ramon Llull&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Dr. &lt;strong&gt;Miriam Diez Bosch&lt;/strong&gt;, Director of the Observatory on Media, Religion and Culture&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Dr. &lt;strong&gt;Caroline Wilson&lt;/strong&gt;, Duoda, Woen’s Research Centre, University of Barcelona&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Dr. &lt;strong&gt;Silvia Planas&lt;/strong&gt;, Director of History of Jews Museum and Institute Nahmanides in Girona.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Dr. &lt;strong&gt;Mia Lovheim,&lt;/strong&gt; Professor of Sociology of Religion, Univerisy of Ups[psala&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Dr. &lt;strong&gt;Emiliana di Blasio&lt;/strong&gt;, professor of sociology, Rome&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Dr. &lt;strong&gt;Gaspar Martinez&lt;/strong&gt;, Professor of Votproa Tjep;pgu Faculty &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Calibri;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Dr. &lt;strong&gt;Gloria Garcia Romeral&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Dr. &lt;strong&gt;Joanna Sumiala&lt;/strong&gt;, Universioty of Helsinki&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Dr. &lt;strong&gt;Jordi Sanchez&lt;/strong&gt;, Deputy Director of Blanquerna Observatory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Barcelona June 14, 2014, after session on Media, Religion and Gender in Europe &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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