Discusses the contributions that women have made to Balkan history, re-evaluating it through an interdisciplinary analysis in which gender takes its place alongside other categories such as class, culture, religion, ethnicity and nationhood. This book focuses on social relations that crossed ethnic and confessional intercommunal boundaries.
Irvin C. Schick has taught at Harvard University and MIT, where he is currently a researcher. He is the author of The Erotic Margin: Sexuality and Spatiality in Alteritist Discourse and The Fair Circassian: Adventures of an Orientalist Motif. Amila Buturovic is Associate Professor at York University, Toronto and author of Stone Speakers: Medieval Tombs, Landscape, and Nationhood in the Poetry of Mak Dizdar.
"most interesting..a very welcome contribution to a little known subject" - Suraiya Faroqhi, Professor of Ottoman Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich and author ofThe Ottoman Empire and the World Around It
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