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Women and the city, women in the city : a gendered perspective to Ottoman urban history / edited by Nazan Maksudyan.

Contributor(s): Maksudyan, Nazan, 1977- [editor of compilation.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2014Edition: First EditionDescription: xiii, 195 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781782384113 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): 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 centuryDDC classification: 305.409561 LOC classification: HQ1726.7 | .W6296 2014
Contents:
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.
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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.