Women and the city, women in the city
Subtitle: a gendered perspective to Ottoman urban history
By: edited by Nazan Maksudyan
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781782384113; 9781782384120
Subjects: Women; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Sex role; Religious aspects; Social life and customs; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of figures; title: Preface. Kaffee und Kuchen; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction. A gendered perspective to Ottoman urban history; title: Women and reorganization of urban life; title: Times of tamaddun : gender, urbanity, and temporality in colonial Egypt / On Barak; title: Women in the post-Ottoman public sphere : anti-veiling campaigns and the gendered reshaping of urban space in early republican Turkey / Sevgi Adak; title: Male spaces, female spaces? : limits of and breaches in the gendered order of the city; title: Playing with gender : the carnival of al-qays in Jeddah / Ulrike Freitag; title: Mixed marriage, prostitution, survival : reintegrating Armenian women into post-Ottoman cities / Vah Tachjian; title: "This time women as well got involved in politics!" : nineteenth century Ottoman women's organizations and political agency / Nazan Maksudyan; title: Discourses and narratives of gender in the urban context; title: Early republican Turkish orientalism : the erotic picture of an Algerian woman and the notion of beauty between the "west" and the "orient" / Nora Lafi; title: The urban experience in women's memoirs : Mediha Kayra's World War I notebook / Christoph Herzog; title: Notes on contributors; title: Bibliography; title: Index.