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Women and the city, women in the city : a gendered perspective on Ottoman urban history / / edited by Nazan Maksudyan ; Sevgi Adak [and six others], contributors



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Titolo: Women and the city, women in the city : a gendered perspective on Ottoman urban history / / edited by Nazan Maksudyan ; Sevgi Adak [and six others], contributors Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 p.)
Disciplina: 305.409561
Soggetto topico: Women - Turkey - Social conditions
Women - Turkey - Economic conditions
Sex role - Religious aspects
Soggetto geografico: Turkey Social life and customs
Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
Persona (resp. second.): MaksudyanNazan <1977->
AdakSevgi
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 CitiesChapter 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Women and the city, women in the city  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78238-412-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910811180703321
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