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Women -- Turkey -- 20th century.
Visitors, Foreign -- Turkey -- 20th century.
Turkey -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Turkey -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Tales from the expat...
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956.104086 T143
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Women -- Turkey -- 20th century.
Visitors, Foreign -- Turkey -- 20th century.
Turkey -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Turkey -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
MARC Display
Tales from the expat harem : foreign women in modern
Turkey
/ [edited by] Anastasia M. Ashman, Jennifer Eaton Gökmen.
Seal Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2006.
Call #:
956.104086 T143
Subjects
Women
--
Turkey
--
20th
century
.
Visitors, Foreign
--
Turkey
--
20th
century
.
Turkey
--
Social
life and customs
--
20th
century
.
Turkey
--
Social
conditions
--
20th
century
.
Series
Seal women's travel
URL856
Table of contents
ISBN:
1580051553 (pbk.)
9781580051552
Alternate title:
Foreign women in modern
Turkey
Description:
xvii, 293 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Contents:
Kervansaray
--
Losing my gender at Troy / Maureen Basedow. Digging with rural workmen in the 1990s, a Bryn Mawr archaeologist tests the conventional wisdom of gender relations
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Orienting express /Jennifer Eaton Gökmen. A dispirited and dependent woman reempowers herself by leading her visiting mother on an adventurous cross-country road trip
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Hello, I love you / Amanda Coffin. A computer specialist in her forties struggles to thwart amorous advances of tireless would-be suitors as she tours eastern
Turkey
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Last stop on the Orient Express
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The painting or the boy / Eveline Zoutendijk. When a devout hotel employee objects to an Ottoman painting hung in the lobby of a hotel, the Dutch hotel owner must decipher the paintings mystery and decide a course of action
--
Conversion in Erzurum / Susan Fleming Holm. In the 1960s, a Peace Corps volunteer in remote eastern
Turkey
weighs her cultural assumptions regarding female clothing and taboo body parts
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The beat of a different drummer / Pat Yale. A Briton wishing to avoid a traditional livestock sacrifice as thanks for her new stone home hopes to repair the town's Ramazan drums instead
--
Hamam
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Coming clean in Kayseri / Wendy Fox. In a steamy 13th-century Cappadocian bathhouse a morbidly shy English teacher confronts her self-image
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Haze / Katherine Belliel. A heartbroken Michigan girl finds closure in Bursa at an ancient Ottoman bath, nurtured by her would-be Turkish sister-in-law
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The goddess metamorphosis / Karen-Claire Voss. Taking part in a traditional bridal bath in 1995, a New Jersey scholar finds aspects of the ancient gddess culture alive and well in a Turkish hamam in central Anatolia
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Femin-Istanbul / Dana Gonzalez. A public relations professional seeking the cure for an intimate ailment in Istanbul agonizes over assumed cultural taboos
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Henna'd hands
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Forever after, for now / Tanala Osayande. A thirty-year-old African American reviews the rules of engagement on the Istanbul dating scene, where rather than playing it cool the men won't stop calling
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Village bride / Eppie Lunsford. A young woman from rural Tennessee connects to her Appalachian upbringing in the 1980s while participating in theatrical village weddings in central
Turkey
--
A fine kettle of fish / Trici Venola. Love and chaos are one in the same in Istanbul for a dramatic Kurd and a midlife Los Angeleno
--
Tying the knot, Ottoman princess-style / Anastasia M. Ashman. A woman from bohemian California finds marrying into the Turkish high society, surrounded by paparazzi, is the fulfillment of a forgotten wish
--
Darbuka drumbeat
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Dancing my way home / Diane Caldwell. A psychotherapist answers the enticing beat of a Turkish darbuka drum and escapes her rigid, twice-divorced life in Seattle
--
From the hip / Sally Green. A writing instructor compares the synthetic salacious approach to belly dancing in a Colorado recreation center with the spirited communal event she recalls from
Turkey
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Kin, cauldron and kismet
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The language of family / Ana Carolina Fletes. Learning from her polished TV host mother-in-law, a Guatemalan grows into her femininity and her family, speaking Turkish with an unrivalled accent
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The food factory / Catherine Yiğit. In a women-filled kitchen on the Black Sea coast, a pregnant Irish bride helps prepare a feast to welcome the family's next bride
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Cherry pie / Mahira Afridi-Perese. An affluent Pakistani who never learned to cook defends her American-born Turkish husband's right to bake when a man in the kitchen upsets his family patriarch
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Water under the bridge / Catherine Salter Bayar. A clothing designer sets boundaries in the Seljuk home she shares with her Kurdish husband, his parents, and his nine siblings
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Peddler in the bazaar
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The business of the bazaar / Dena Sukaya. A Seattle retail executive abandons the boardroom for Istanbul's Grand Bazaar
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Unpacking the pazar arabasi / Valerie Tairan. An American-born naturalized Turkish citizen reconciles the meaning of Turkishness with her own misguided assumptions
--
Charms and soothsayers
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Ankara's fertile ground / Nancy Lunsford. A doubly pregnant Appalachian artist blooms in a land of fecundity and fortunetelling, where popcorn is magical and village midwives are more accurate than sonograms
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A mother's charms / Maria Yarbrough Orhon. Doubtful of shamanistic charms and rituals in her Turkish husband's family, a South Carolina woman nevertheless learns to conduct them on her own
--
Evil eye exorcism / Annie Prior Ozsara. When a series of accidents befall a young couple in Istanbul, Turkish relatives call on their Black Sea matriarch to perform a shamanistic exorcism
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Homespun hospitality
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Rescued by village intelligence / Claire Uhr. Stricken with influenza, a friendless Australian finds surprise succor with unknown Cappadocian neighbors
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The headman's pajamas / Jessica Lutz. Village men in a desolate war-torn border town near Iraq in 1993 maintain impeccable standards of civility toward a Dutch journalist who smuggles herself into their lives
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Hijacked / Kathleen Hamilton Gündoğdu. Traveling alone by bus to Konya during a civil unrest, a young Texan secretary is unexpectedly detoured
--
Failed missionary / Rhonda Vander Sluis. A Christian evangelist from Iowa is transformed by the compassion of Turkish souls she hopes to save.
Other authors:
Ashman, Anastasia M.
Gökmen, Jennifer Eaton
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