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23 - Deconstructing the European Female

from Part V - The End of the European Dream

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2020

Malte Fuhrmann
Affiliation:
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)
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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 Mediterranean
Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire
, pp. 371 - 389
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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