A social history of late Ottoman women : : new perspectives / / edited by Duygu Ko℗·ksal and Anastasia Falierou.

• Superior document: The Ottoman empire and its heritage, Volume 54
• TeilnehmendeR: K{uml}oksal, Duygu.; Falierou, Anastasia.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, 2013.; {copy}2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 54.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

In A Social History of the Late Ottoman Women: New Perspectives , Duygu Köksal and Anastasia Falierou bring together new research on women of different geographies and communities of the late Ottoman Empire. Making use of archives, literary works, diaries, newspapers, almanacs, art works or cartoons, the contributors focus particularly on the ways in which women gained power and exercised agency in late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey. The articles convincingly show that women’s agency cannot be unearthed without narrating how women were involved in shaping their own and others’ lives even in the most unexpected areas of their existence. The women’s activities described here do not simply reflect modernizing trends or westernizing attitudes—or their defensive denial. They provide an array of local responses where ‘the local’ can never be found (and should never be conceptualized) in its initial, unchanged, or authentic state.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Historiography of Late Ottoman Women / Duygu Köksal and Anastasia Falierou -- 1. Theater as Career for Ottoman Armenian Women, 1850 to 1910 / Hasmik Khalapyan -- 2. Searching for Women’s Agency in the Tobacco Workshops: Female Tobacco Workers of the Province of Selanik / E. Tutku Vardağlı -- 3. Working from Home: Division of Labor among Female Workers of Feshane in Late Nineteenth-Century Istanbul / M. Erdem Kabadayı -- 4. The Limits of Feminism in Muslim-Turkish Women Writers of the Armistice Period (1918–1923) / Elif İkbal Mahir Metinsoy -- 5. Between Two Worlds: Education and Acculturation of Ottoman Jewish Women / Rachel Simon -- 6. Girls’ Institutes and the Rearrangement of the Public and the Private Spheres in Turkey / Elif Ekin Akşit -- 7. Painting the Late Ottoman Woman: Portrait(s) of Mihri Müşfik Hanım / Burcu Pelvanoğlu -- 8. The New Woman in Erotic Popular Literature of 1920's Istanbul / Fatma Türe -- 9. Enlightened Mothers and Scientific Housewives: Discussing Women’s Social Roles in Eurydice (Evridiki) (1870–1873) / Falierou Anastasia -- 10. An Almanac for Ottoman Women: Notes on Ebüzziya Tevfik’s Takvîmü’n-nisâ (1317/1899) / Özgür Türesay -- 11. Women’s Representations in Ottoman Cartoons and the Satirical Press on the Eve of the Kemalist Reforms (1919–1924) / François Georgeon -- 12. From a Critique of the Orient to a Critique of Modernity: A Greek-Ottoman-American Writer, Demetra Vaka (1877–1946) / Duygu Köksal -- 13. The ‘Tomboy’ and the ‘Aristocrat’: Nabawiyya Mûsâ and Malak Hifnî Nâsif, Pioneers of Egyptian Feminism / Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen -- 14. Hayriye Melek (Hunç), a Circassian Ottoman Writer between Feminism and Nationalism / Alexandre Toumarkine -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.