Alev Lytle Croutier's "Harem: The World Behind the Veil (25th Anniversary Edition)"
Posted: 12/01/2014 3:28 pm EST Updated: 5 hours ago
Had I not read Alev Lytle Croutier's Harem: The World Behind the Veil when it was first published 25 years ago, I would have continued thinking that a harem in Turkey was basically a gathering of women sequestered--imprisoned--for the deviant sexual pleasure of the pasha, sultan or whomever else was in charge. Like that of most other people in the west, my understanding of the harem was a salacious one, and very inaccurate.
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