A Social History of Late Ottoman Women

Duygu Köksal, Ph. D (1996), University of Texas at Austin, is Associate Professor of Political Science at Boğaziçi University, The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History. She has published several articles in Turkish and in English on the culture, art and literature of Turkey's early Republican era and on politics of gender in Turkey. Anastasia Falierou, Ph. D. (2012), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, is a lecturer at University of Athens, Department of Turkish and Modern Asiatic Studies. She has published many articles on Turkish nationalism, gender relations during the Young Turk era, and on the clothing of patterns of late Ottoman and early Republican women.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication
Acknowledgement
List of Illustrations

Introduction
Duygu Köksal, Anastasia Falierou

PART I: Women as Economic Actors: Class, Work and Social Issues
Theater as Career for Ottoman Armenian Women, 1850 to 1910
Hasmik Khalapyan
Searching for Women’s Agency in the Tobacco Workshops: Female Tobacco Workers of the Province of Selanik
E. Tutku Vardağlı
Working From Home: Division of Labor Among Female Workers of Feshane in Late Nineteenth Century Istanbul
M. Erdem Kabadayı

PART II: Education for Life: Schools, Associations and Curricula
The Limits of Feminism in Muslim-Turkish Women Writers of the Armistice Period
Elif İkbal Mahir Metinsoy
Between Two Worlds: Education and Accultration of Ottoman Jewish Women
Rachel Simon
Girls’ Institutes and the Rearrangement of the Public and the Private Spheres in Turkey
Elif Ekin Akşit

PART III: Creating New Lives, Pushing the Boundaries: Ottoman Female Artists
Painting the Late Ottoman Woman: Portrait(s) of Mihri Müşfik Hanım
Burcu Pelvanoğlu
The New Woman in Erotic Popular Literature of 1920s Istanbul
Fatma Türe

PART IV: Womanhood in Print Culture
Enlightened Mothers and Scientific Housewifes: Discussing Women’s Social Roles in Eurydice (Evridiki) (1870-1873)
Anastasia Falierou
An Almanac for Ottoman Women: Notes on Ebüzziya Tevfik’s Takvîmü’n-nisâ (1317/1899)
Özgür Türesay
Women’s Representations in Ottoman Cartoons and the Satirical Press on the Eve of the Kemalist Reforms (1919-1924)
François Georgon

Part V: Dilemmas of Nationalism: Debating Modernity, Identity and Women’s Agency
From a Critique of the Orient to a Critique of Modernity: A Greek-Ottoman-American Writer, Demetra Vaka (1877-1946)
Duygu Köksal
The ‘Tomboy’ and the Aristocrat: Nabawiyya Mûsâ and Malak Hifnî Nâsif, Pioneers of Egyptian Feminism
Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen
Hayriye Melek (Hunc), a Circassian Ottoman Writer between Feminism and Nationalism
Alexandre Toumarkine

Notes on Contributors
Index