Women and the City, Women in the City (Web PDF) von Nazan Maksudyan

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 ofTamaddun: 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 ofal-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 Womens Memoirs: Mediha Kayra's World War I Notebook
Christoph Herzog

Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index

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.

Nazan Maksudyanis Assistant Professor of History at the Sociology Department of Istanbul Kemerburgaz University and has held Wissenschaftskolleg and Alexander von Humboldt postdoc positions in Berlin at Zentrum Moderner Orient.