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Sent: 20 November 2009 16:40 Dear list members, I'd like to announce a collection of essays I co-edited with Shona Kelly Wray: Across the Religious Divide: Women, Property, and Law in the Wider Mediterranean (ca. 1300-1800) (Routledge, 2009). This volume investigates women's property rights in Latin, Greek-Orthodox, Jewish, Coptic, and Muslim communities all over the Mediterranean. It argues that differences in women's property rights were not necessarily the result of religious difference. Women all over the Meditteranean engaged in similar forms of agency to acquire and maintain property in their respective male-dominated societies. Differences in access to property between women in Portugal and Italy, or between rural and urban women in the Ottoman Empire, were more pronounced than those among upper-class women of Venice, Cairo, and Istanbul. In proposing a new approach to feminist historical scholarship of the Mediterranean, this book seeks to recast the question of difference and to overcome the traditional focus on religious divisions. Best wishes, Jutta Sperling -- Jutta Sperling Associate Professor of History School of Social Sciences Hampshire College Amherst, MA 01002 web: http://helios.hampshire.edu/~jsSS/Jutta_Sperling.html email: jsperling@hampshire.edu Fax: (413) 559-5620 Phone: (413) 559-5507
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