Book contents
- Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Constructing Europe
- Part III The City’s New Pleasures
- Part IV Identities on the Mediterranean Shore
- Part V The End of the European Dream
- 20 The Lack of an Anti-European Perspective
- 21 Economies of Violence and Challenges to the Thalassocentric Order
- 22 The Anti-Western Rebellion on the Eve of the Belle Époque
- 23 Deconstructing the European Female
- 24 The “Unraveling” of Port City Society
- Part VI Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean Revisited
- Bibliography
- Index
23 - Deconstructing the European Female
from Part V - The End of the European Dream
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2020
Book contents
- Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Constructing Europe
- Part III The City’s New Pleasures
- Part IV Identities on the Mediterranean Shore
- Part V The End of the European Dream
- 20 The Lack of an Anti-European Perspective
- 21 Economies of Violence and Challenges to the Thalassocentric Order
- 22 The Anti-Western Rebellion on the Eve of the Belle Époque
- 23 Deconstructing the European Female
- 24 The “Unraveling” of Port City Society
- Part VI Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean Revisited
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In the late Ottoman Empire, efforts to deconstruct Western supremacism often focused on local subjects of the Great Powers that did not meet their standards of assumed superior qualities. One group in particular that received much attention was Austrian subjects engaging in prostitution and human trafficking. Highlighting these subjects served to erode notions of European female superior qualities, especially as teachers, house instructors, and nannies. Diplomatic struggles, especially between the Habsburg and Ottoman authorities, reveal a lack of strategy to effectively counter the vaining of imperial prestige.
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- Port Cities of the Eastern MediterraneanUrban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire, pp. 371 - 389Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020