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Everyday lives of Ottoman Muslim women : Hanımlara mahsûs gazete (Newspaper for ladies) (1895-1908) / Ayşe Zeren Enis.

By: Zeren-Enis, Ayşe, 1986- [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Tarih dizisi (Libra Kitapçılık ve Yayıncılık) ; 60.Publisher: Istanbul : Libra Kitapçılık ve Yayıncılık, 2013Description: 785 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9786054326716; 6054326716Subject(s): Hanımlara mahsus gazete | Women's periodicals, Turkish | Women -- Turkey -- Social conditions | Freedom of the press -- Turkey -- HistoryLOC classification: PN5355.T84 | H369 2013Summary: Published for thirteen years (1895-1908), Hanımlara Mahsûs Gazete (Newspaper for Ladies), with its articles and news about education, family, household, household management, child-rearing, hygiene, health, beauty, embroidery, leisure and fashion is a precious source reflecting not only the ideal everyday life of an ideal Ottoman woman of the upper and middle classes of Ottoman society in an era of modernization and westernization but also Sultan Abdülhamid II's oppressive censorship policies as imposed on the press. In this sense, the main argument of this book examines the characteristics of an urban, upper and middle class "ideal" Ottoman Muslim woman or womanhood and her supposed everyday life during the reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II as portrayed by the articles in Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete.
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"Libra Kitap 72"--Page facing title page.

"100 copies, 2013"--Page facing title page.

Also issued as the author's thesis, MA degree from Boğaziçi University, Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, History Department.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-511) and indexes.

Published for thirteen years (1895-1908), Hanımlara Mahsûs Gazete (Newspaper for Ladies), with its articles and news about education, family, household, household management, child-rearing, hygiene, health, beauty, embroidery, leisure and fashion is a precious source reflecting not only the ideal everyday life of an ideal Ottoman woman of the upper and middle classes of Ottoman society in an era of modernization and westernization but also Sultan Abdülhamid II's oppressive censorship policies as imposed on the press. In this sense, the main argument of this book examines the characteristics of an urban, upper and middle class "ideal" Ottoman Muslim woman or womanhood and her supposed everyday life during the reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II as portrayed by the articles in Hanımlara Mahsus Gazete.