AFSANEH NAJMABADI | The Kin Who Count and Those in the Shadows...

<p><strong>2015-2016 Penn Humanities Forum on Sex</strong><br />University of Pennsylvania</p> <p>During the nineteenth century in the Ottoman Empire, ideas about what did and should constitute family changed dramatically. Harvard historian and prize-winning author Afsaneh Najmabadi explores the rise of companionate marriage based on love, and of the conjugal couple, and considers how expectations of women changed, as well as who became excluded from new legal and everyday definitions of kin.</p> <p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cosponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Language & Civilizations and Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women.</span></p> <div id="stcpDiv" style="position: absolute; top: -1999px; left: -1988px;">Cosponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Language & Civilizations and Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women. - See more at: http://www.phf.upenn.edu/events/kin-who-count-and-those-shadows#sthash.mAXUv6yR.dpuf</div> <p>For more information on this and other Penn Humanities Forum events: <a href="http://www.phf.upenn.edu">www.phf.upenn.edu</a></p>