Women and the city, women in the city : a gendered perspective to Ottoman urban history

Women and the city, women in the city : a gendered perspective to Ottoman urban history / edited by Nazan Maksudyan.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Maksudyan, Nazan, 1977- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
1288-2099
Women > Turkey > Social conditions.
Women > Turkey > Economic conditions.
Sex role > Religious aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > Middle East > Turkey & Ottoman Empire.
Manners and customs
Sex role > Religious aspects
Women > Economic conditions
Women > Social conditions
Turkey > Social life and customs.
Turkey > History > Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Turkey > History > 20th century.
Turkey > History > 21st century.
Turkey > History.
Turkey
History
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Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • Preface. Kaffee und Kuchen
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. A gendered perspective to Ottoman urban history
  • Women and reorganization of urban life
  • Times of tamaddun : gender, urbanity, and temporality in colonial Egypt / On Barak
  • Women in the post-Ottoman public sphere : anti-veiling campaigns and the gendered reshaping of urban space in early republican Turkey / Sevgi Adak
  • Male spaces, female spaces? : limits of and breaches in the gendered order of the city
  • Playing with gender : the carnival of al-qays in Jeddah / Ulrike Freitag
  • Mixed marriage, prostitution, survival : reintegrating Armenian women into post-Ottoman cities / Vah Tachjian
  • "This time women as well got involved in politics!" : nineteenth century Ottoman women's organizations and political agency / Nazan Maksudyan
  • Discourses and narratives of gender in the urban context
  • Early republican Turkish orientalism : the erotic picture of an Algerian woman and the notion of beauty between the "west" and the "orient" / Nora Lafi
  • 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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