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

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.

Item Status

Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource (xiii, 195 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary 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.
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Subject Women -- Turkey -- Social conditions.
Women.
Turkey.
Social conditions.
Women -- Turkey -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Sex role -- Religious aspects.
Sex role -- Religious aspects.
Turkey -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
Turkey -- History -- 20th century.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Turkey -- History -- 21st century.
Chronological Term 21st century
1288-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Gender roles.
Added Author Maksudyan, Nazan, 1977- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Women and the city, women in the city. First Edition 9781782384113 (DLC) 2014000993 (OCoLC)872653954
ISBN 9781782384120 (electronic book)
178238412X (electronic book)
9781782384113
1782384111