Câriye Kökenli Bir Selçuklu Hâtunu: Sultan Melikşah’ın Eşlerinden Tâceddîn Seferiyye Hâtun by Züriye ORUÇ

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COMFORT WOMEN SURVIVING PANDEMICS: FROM ERASURE TO EMBODIED HOPE TOWARDS A FEMINIST-POSTCOLONIAL THEOLOGY OF RADICAL HOSPITALITY by S.A. Bong

“…The parallel stories of Lot’s offer of his virgin daughters (Gen. 19) and the Levite’s offer of his concubine (Judges 19) expose, first, the hierarchisation of male guests over women, as property of men, and secondly, the inviolable creed of hospitality conferred on men by men, that is sustained by the cultural code that marks women’s bodies as violable. …”
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Voiles et caravansérails : l’Orient dans Lolita by Monica Manolescu

“…Several obvious Oriental motifs could be mentioned: the harem, the pubescent concubine, the oriental decorations of Quilty’s and Gaston Godin’s homes, the imaginary fresco at the Enchanted Hunters, American motels compared to caravansaries, the veil that allows Humbert to catch furtive glimpses of the nymphet’s body. …”
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Fumo proibito: la sigaretta erotica dell’Odalisca by Liesbeth Grotenhuis

“…Le concubine che fumano ci rivelano il segreto dell’harem’, ha spiegato il professor Luthmer nel 1894. …”
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La sati indienne au travers de l’histoire. Du suicide héroïque aux martyres du système socio-politique by Harald Tambs-Lyche

“…Much later, from the 17th century onwards, the number of satis grows dramatically, until death on the pyre becomes an obligation for all the king’s women – queens, concubines and servants – on the ruler’s death. Clearly, suicide is now imposed on women by the political and religious order. …”
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Smoking Hot: the Odalisque’s eroticizing Cigarette by Liesbeth Grotenhuis

“…“Smoking concubines reveal to us the secret of the harem”, Professor Luthmer explained in 1894. …”
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