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Women and the City, Women in the City
A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History
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eBook - PDF
Women and the City, Women in the City
A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface: Kaffee und Kuchen
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I — Women and the Reorganization of Urban Life
- Chapter 1 — Times of Tamaddun: Gender, Urbanity, and Temporality in Colonial Egypt
- Chapter 2 — Women in the Post-Ottoman Public Sphere: Anti-Veiling Campaigns and the Gendered Reshaping of Urban Space in Early Republican Turkey
- 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
- Chapter 4 — Mixed Marriage, Prostitution, Survival: Reintegrating Armenian Women into Post-Ottoman Cities
- Chapter 5 — "This time women as well got involved in politics!": Nineteenth Century Ottoman Women's Organizations and Political Agency
- 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"
- Chapter 7 — The Urban Experience in Women's Memoirs: Mediha Kayra's World War I Notebook
- Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index