A social history of late Ottoman women
Subtitle: new perspectives
By: edited by Duygu Köksal and Anastasia Falierou
Series: The Ottoman empire and its heritage -- volume 54
Publisher: Brill; BRILL
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9789004225169; 9789004255258
Subjects: Women; History
Description: In 'A Social History of the Late Ottoman Women: New Sources, New Stories', 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-337) and index.