HIST 1601H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Castration, Circassia, Mehmed The Conqueror
9 Mar 2018
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Sex, love, and hate in the harmen: the photo represents how we felt about the harem. What is a harem? : family quarters, private section of a residence where strangers are not allowed (only family) Functions: family life, sexual life of the owner, education of the young, owner"s status statement: female members are typically restricted. Sexual conduct and the other : accusations of sexual immorality and excesses in the creating a negative image the other, orientalism is only one example, photo of sexual immorality belle of nelson old fashioned hand made sour mash. Whisky it was meant to sell the moral mass. Harems in western imagination: primary function: sexual gratification, sex factories or private brothels, expression of immorality of the other , vehicles of sexual fantasizing, photo: the harem as imagined by european artist, the dormitory of the concubines, 1811 (looks like a prison, office building, factory) the residents have no privacy.
