Tales from the expat harem (Record no. 101433)

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Canceled/invalid LC control number 2005023859
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 1580051553 (pbk.)
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9781580051552
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System control number (CaPaEBR)ebr10319936
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System control number (OCoLC)647827055
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Classification number DR432
Item number .T29 2006eb
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 956.104/086/91
Edition number 22
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Tales from the expat harem
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title foreign women in modern Turkey /
Statement of responsibility, etc. [edited by] Anastasia M. Ashman, Jennifer Eaton Gökmen.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Emeryville, CA :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Seal Press :
-- Distributed by Publishers Group West,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. c2006.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvii, 293 p. :
Other physical details ill.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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 -- Orienting express /Jennifer Eaton Gökmen. A dispirited and dependent woman reempowers herself by leading her visiting mother on an adventurous cross-country road trip -- 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 -- Last stop on the Orient Express -- 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 -- 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 -- Coming clean in Kayseri / Wendy Fox. In a steamy 13th-century Cappadocian bathhouse a morbidly shy English teacher confronts her self-image -- 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 -- 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 -- Femin-Istanbul / Dana Gonzalez. A public relations professional seeking the cure for an intimate ailment in Istanbul agonizes over assumed cultural taboos -- Henna'd hands -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Kin, cauldron and kismet -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Peddler in the bazaar -- The business of the bazaar / Dena Sukaya. A Seattle retail executive abandons the boardroom for Istanbul's Grand Bazaar -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Homespun hospitality -- Rescued by village intelligence / Claire Uhr. Stricken with influenza, a friendless Australian finds surprise succor with unknown Cappadocian neighbors -- 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 -- 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.
533 ## - REPRODUCTION NOTE
Type of reproduction Electronic reproduction.
Place of reproduction Palo Alto, Calif. :
Agency responsible for reproduction ebrary,
Date of reproduction 2013.
Note about reproduction Available via World Wide Web.
-- Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Women
Geographic subdivision Turkey
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Visitors, Foreign
Geographic subdivision Turkey
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Turkey
General subdivision Social life and customs
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Turkey
General subdivision Social conditions
Chronological subdivision 20th century.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
Source of term local
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Ashman, Anastasia M.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gökmen, Jennifer Eaton.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element ebrary, Inc.
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10319936">http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10319936</a>
Public note An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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