An attempt to reveal, recover and reconsider the roles, positions, and actions of Ottoman women, this volume reconsiders the negotiations, alliances, and agency of women in asserting themselves in the public domain in late- and post-Ottoman cities. Drawing on diverse theoretical backgrounds and a variety of source materials, from court records to memoirs to interviews, the contributors to the volume reconstruct the lives of these women within the urban sphere. With a fairly wide geographical span, from Aleppo to Sofia, from Jeddah to Istanbul, the chapters offer a wide panorama of the Ottoman urban geography, with a specific concern for gender roles.…mehr
An attempt to reveal, recover and reconsider the roles, positions, and actions of Ottoman women, this volume reconsiders the negotiations, alliances, and agency of women in asserting themselves in the public domain in late- and post-Ottoman cities. Drawing on diverse theoretical backgrounds and a variety of source materials, from court records to memoirs to interviews, the contributors to the volume reconstruct the lives of these women within the urban sphere. With a fairly wide geographical span, from Aleppo to Sofia, from Jeddah to Istanbul, the chapters offer a wide panorama of the Ottoman urban geography, with a specific concern for gender roles.
Nazan Maksudyan is Assistant Professor of History at the Sociology Department of Istanbul Kemerburgaz University and has held Wissenschaftskolleg and Alexander von Humboldt postdoc positions in Berlin at Zentrum Moderner Orient.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures Preface: Kaffee und Kuchen Acknowledgments Introduction: A Gendered Perspective to Ottoman Urban History PART I: WOMEN AND REORGANIZATION OF URBAN LIFE Chapter 1. Times of Tamaddun: Gender, Urbanity, and Temporality in Colonial Egypt On Barak Chapter 2. Women in the Post-Ottoman Public Sphere: Anti-Veiling Campaigns and the Gendered Reshaping of Urban Space in Early Republican Turkey Sevgi Adak PART II: MALE SPACES, FEMALE SPACES? LIMITS OF AND BREACHES IN THE GENDERED ORDER OF THE CITY Chapter 3. Playing with Gender: The Carnival of al-Qays in Jeddah Ulrike Freitag Chapter 4. Mixed Marriage, Prostitution, Survival: Reintegrating Armenian Women into Post-Ottoman Cities Vahé Tachjian Chapter 5. "This time women as well got involved in politics!": Nineteenth Century Ottoman Women's Organizations and Political Agency Nazan Maksudyan PART III: DISCOURSES AND NARRATIVES OF GENDER IN THE URBAN CONTEXT Chapter 6. Early Republican Turkish Orientalism? The Erotic Picture of an Algerian Woman and the notion of Beauty between the "West" and the "Orient" Nora Lafi Chapter 7. The Urban Experience in Women's Memoirs: Mediha Kayra's World War I Notebook Christoph Herzog Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
List of Figures Preface: Kaffee und Kuchen Acknowledgments Introduction: A Gendered Perspective to Ottoman Urban History PART I: WOMEN AND REORGANIZATION OF URBAN LIFE Chapter 1. Times of Tamaddun: Gender, Urbanity, and Temporality in Colonial Egypt On Barak Chapter 2. Women in the Post-Ottoman Public Sphere: Anti-Veiling Campaigns and the Gendered Reshaping of Urban Space in Early Republican Turkey Sevgi Adak PART II: MALE SPACES, FEMALE SPACES? LIMITS OF AND BREACHES IN THE GENDERED ORDER OF THE CITY Chapter 3. Playing with Gender: The Carnival of al-Qays in Jeddah Ulrike Freitag Chapter 4. Mixed Marriage, Prostitution, Survival: Reintegrating Armenian Women into Post-Ottoman Cities Vahé Tachjian Chapter 5. "This time women as well got involved in politics!": Nineteenth Century Ottoman Women's Organizations and Political Agency Nazan Maksudyan PART III: DISCOURSES AND NARRATIVES OF GENDER IN THE URBAN CONTEXT Chapter 6. Early Republican Turkish Orientalism? The Erotic Picture of an Algerian Woman and the notion of Beauty between the "West" and the "Orient" Nora Lafi Chapter 7. The Urban Experience in Women's Memoirs: Mediha Kayra's World War I Notebook Christoph Herzog Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
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