TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maksudyan,Nazan
TI  - Women and the city, women in the city: a gendered perspective to Ottoman urban history 
SN  - 9781782384113 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - HQ1726.7 .W6296 2014
U1  - 305.409561 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Women
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - History
KW  - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of figures -- Preface. Kaffee und Kuchen -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. A gendered perspective to Ottoman urban history -- Women and reorganization of urban life -- Times of tamaddun : gender, urbanity, and temporality in colonial Egypt / On Barak -- Women in the post-Ottoman public sphere : anti-veiling campaigns and the gendered reshaping of urban space in early republican Turkey / Sevgi Adak -- Male spaces, female spaces? : limits of and breaches in the gendered order of the city -- Playing with gender : the carnival of al-qays in Jeddah / Ulrike Freitag -- Mixed marriage, prostitution, survival : reintegrating Armenian women into post-Ottoman cities / Vah Tachjian -- "This time women as well got involved in politics!" : nineteenth century Ottoman women's organizations and political agency / Nazan Maksudyan -- Discourses and narratives of gender in the urban context -- Early republican Turkish orientalism : the erotic picture of an Algerian woman and the notion of beauty between the "west" and the "orient" / Nora Lafi -- The urban experience in women's memoirs : Mediha Kayra's World War I notebook / Christoph Herzog -- Notes on contributors -- Bibliography -- Index
ER  -