Women and the city, women in the city : a gendered perspective to Ottoman urban history /: a gendered perspective to Ottoman urban history. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Nazan Maksudyan.
• Editors: Maksudyan, Nazan, 1977-
• Contents: List of Figures Preface: Kaffee und Kuchen Acknowledgments Introduction: A Gendered Perspective to Ottoman Urban History PART I: WOMEN AND REORGANIZATION OF URBAN LIFE Chapter 1. Times of Tamaddun : Gender, Urbanity, and Temporality in Colonial Egypt; On Barak Chapter 2. Women in the Post-Ottoman Public Sphere: Anti-Veiling Campaigns and the Gendered Reshaping of Urban Space in Early Republican Turkey; Sevgi Adak 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; Ulrike Freitag Chapter 4. Mixed Marriage, Prostitution, Survival: Reintegrating Armenian Women into Post-Ottoman Cities; Vahé Tachjian Chapter 5. "This time women as well got involved in politics!": Nineteenth Century Ottoman Women's Organizations and Political Agency; Nazan Maksudyan 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"; Nora Lafi Chapter 7. The Urban Experience in Women's Memoirs: Mediha Kayra's World War I Notebook; Christoph Herzog Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 305.409561; Women -- Turkey -- Social conditions; Women -- Turkey -- Economic conditions; Sex role -- Religious aspects; Turkey -- Social life and customs; Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918; Turkey -- History -- 20th century; Turkey -- History -- 21st century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782384120
• Related ISBNs: 9781782384113
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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