Product Description: The social position of women in many of the countries ringing the Mediterranean is notoriously inferior. Across North Africa and along much of the Mediterranean's eastern shore, the 'crime of honour' - in which a woman suspected of having violated a stringent code of sexual behaviour is murdered by members of her own family - is rarely punished severely...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The exotic, cruel, yet fascinating world of the harem is recreated in a history that makes use of firsthand accounts