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Where to hide your lover? Use of Private Space in Early Modern Ottoman Prose Fiction
Where to hide your lover? Use of Private Space in Early Modern Ottoman Prose Fiction
Using Early Modern Ottoman fictional prose stories, this talk centers on stories set in the home and proposes to rethink home as a gendered space by looking at women’s (and men’s) performances there. The question of “Where to hide one’s lover?” introduces women’s strategies to claim home as their own space —mainly by its regulation […]