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Women and the city, women in the city
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 urban geography, with a specific concern for gender roles.
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Women in Turkey : silent consensus in the age of neoliberalism and Islamic conservatism
This book provides a socio-economic examination of the status of women in contemporary Turkey, assessing how policies have combined elements of neoliberalism and Islamic conservatism. Using rich qualitative and quantitative analyses, Women in Turkey analyses the policies concerning women in the areas of employment, education and health and the fundamental transformation of the construction of gender since the early 2000s. Comparing this with the situation pre-2000, the authors argue that the reconstruction of gender is part of the reshaping of the state-society relations, the state-business relationship, and the cultural changes which have taken place across the country over the last two decades. Thus, the book situates the Turkish case within the broader context of international development of neoliberalism while paying close attention to its idiosyncrasies. Adopting a political economy perspective emphasizing the material sources of gender relations, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Middle Eastern politics, political Islam and Gender Studies.
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Women and Public Space in Turkey
Turkey's process of `modernization' developed rapidly during the second half of the twentieth century. New social and legal reforms were institutionalized and political and economic changes located the country as a more liberated, `Western-style' society. Women and Public Space in Turkey provides a historical understanding of women's experiences of this modernization between 1950 and 1980, a vital period in which their participation in urban public life expanded through higher education and employment. Selda Tuncer examines the precise conditions that enabled women to leave the home and reveals how they perceived and experienced urban public space and social relations. Drawing on interviews with two generations of women from Ankara, and using personal family photographs, the book provides invaluable insights into women in a predominantly Muslim society who are living in a highly secular social context. Tuncer specifically focuses on women's everyday experiences and discusses how the relationship between women and public space was actually controlled and regulated by different notions of `domestication', especially in the micro-politics of daily life. The book sheds new light on the gendered processes of nation-building, socio-cultural transformations, and the crucial connections between gender, modernity and the urban experience in a non-Western context.
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Women of Assur and Kanesh
Vivid sources for reconstructing the lives of Assyrian
women
In this collection Cécile Michel translates into English texts
related to wives and daughters of merchants and to their activities
in nineteenth-century BCE Aššur and Kaneš. Discovered in
excavations of the Old Assyrian private archives at Kültepe
(ancient Kaneš) in Central Anatolia, these letters sent from Aššur
reflect the preeminent role of Assyrian women within the family and
in the domestic economy, as well as their contribution to
long-distance trade. Contracts and other legal texts excavated at
Kültepe attest to Assyrian and Anatolian women as parties in
marriage and divorce contracts, last wills, loans, and purchase
contracts. These unique finds paint a vivid portrait of women who
aspire to be socially respected and provide a rare opportunity to
reconstruct their daily lives as both businesswomen and
housewives.
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More than three hundred letters and documents transliterated
and translated with commentary
An overview of the study of women and gender in
Assyriology
A reconstruction of women's roles as textile producers,
investors, and creditors within a long-distance commercial
network
Cécile Michel is Senior Researcher at the
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France) and
Professor at Hamburg University (Germany). She is a member of the
international group of scholars in charge of the decipherment of
the 23,000 tablets found at Kültepe (ancient Kaneš) and of the
Kültepe archaeological team. She is the coeditor of and contributor
to The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ancient Near
East (2016), Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the
Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD (2017), and
Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in Ancient
Worlds (2020).
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The concubine, the princess, and the teacher : voices from the Ottoman harem
In the Western imagination, the Middle Eastern harem was a place of sex, debauchery, slavery, miscegenation, power, riches, and sheer abandon. But for the women and children who actually inhabited this realm of the imperial palace, the reality was vastly different. In this collection of translated memoirs, three women who lived in the Ottoman imperial harem in Istanbul between 1876 and 1924 offer a fascinating glimpse “behind the veil” into the lives of Muslim palace women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The memoirists are Filizten, concubine to Sultan Murad V; Princess Ayse, daughter of Sultan Abdulhamid II; and Safiye, a schoolteacher who instructed the grandchildren and harem ladies of Sultan Mehmed V. Their recollections of the Ottoman harem reveal the rigid protocol and hierarchy that governed the lives of the imperial family and concubines, as well as the hundreds of slave women and black eunuchs in service to them. The memoirists show that, far from being a place of debauchery, the harem was a family home in which polite and refined behavior prevailed. Douglas Brookes explains the social structure of the nineteenth-century Ottoman palace harem in his introduction. These three memoirs, written across a half century and by women of differing social classes, offer a fuller and richer portrait of the Ottoman imperial harem than has ever before been available in English.
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Rethinking Islam and liberal democracy : Islamist women in Turkish politics
In Turkey, no secular party has approximated the high levels of membership and intense activism of women within the Islamist Refah (Welfare) Party. Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy examines the experiences of these women, who represented an unprecedented phenomenon within Turkish politics. Using in-depth interviews, Yesçim Arat reveals how the women of the party broadened the parameters of democratic participation and challenged preconceived notions of what Islam can entail in a secular democratic polity. The women of the party successfully mobilized large groups of allegedly apolitical women by crossing the boundaries between the social and the political, reaching them through personal networks cultivated in private spaces. The experiences of these women show the contentious relationship between liberal democracy and Islam, where liberalism that prioritizes the individual can transform, coexist, or remain in tension with Islam that prioritizes a communal identity legitimized by a sacred God.
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