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
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.
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