Politics of Honor in Ottoman Anatolia: Sexual Violence and Socio-legal Surveillance in the Eighteenth Century

＂In Politics of Honor, Baak Tu examines moral and gender order through the glance of legal litigations and petitions in mid-eighteenth century Anatolia. By juxtaposing the Anatolian petitionary registers, subjects’ petitions, and Ankara and Bursa court records, she analyzes the institutional framework of legal scrutiny of sexual order. Through a revisionist interpretation, Tu demonstrates that a more bureaucratized system of petitioning, a farther hierarchically organized judicial review mechanism, and amore centrally organized penal system of the mid-eighteenth century reinforced the existing mechanisms of social surveillance by the community and the co-existing ’discretionary authority’ of the Ottoman state over sexual crimes to overcome imperial anxieties about provincial ’disorder’＂--Provided by publisher.