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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828529903321

Autore

Türe Fatma

Titolo

Facts and fantasies : images of Istanbul women in the 1920s / / D. Fatma Türe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-7879-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 p.)

Disciplina

305.420946918

Soggetti

Women - Turkey - Istanbul - Social conditions - 20th century

Women in popular culture - Turkey

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Turkey History 1918-1960

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; A NOTE ON TURKISH PRONUNCIATION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; APPENDICES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

The question of women and their rights was a prominent and ongoing topic of debate in the popular press of Turkey in the 1920's. This work presents an insightful analysis of those debates and follows its traces in obscene literature of the period, as a marginal, but influential branch of popular literature. Popular literature of the time carefully scrutinizes urban Istanbul women in particular, from their biological responsibilities to their behavior in the public arena, down to their clothes