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Facts and Fantasies: Images of Istanbul Women in the 1920s Hardcover – March 1, 2015
by D. Fatma Ture [1]

Hardcover: 405 pages
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing; Unabridged edition (March 1, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1443872229
ISBN-13: 978-1443872225


The question of women and their rights was a prominent and ongoing topic of debate in the popular press of Turkey in the 1920s. This work presents an insightful analysis of those debates and follows its traces in obscene literature of the period, as a marginal, but influential branch of popular literature. Popular literature of the time carefully scrutinizes urban Istanbul women in particular, from their biological responsibilities to their behavior in the public arena, down to their clothes and their relations with the opposite sex. It was believed that it was urban women above all who threatened the contemporary social order. Bearing in mind that the traditional faith-based, patriarchal Ottoman social system began to disintegrate after the First World War, and was increasingly replaced by a nationalist and modern, but still patriarchal, structure, this book shows that the popular press sought to integrate women as individuals into the new social structure and define them according to common social perceptions. Women who defied society's definition of the ideal woman were often depicted as heroines in popular obscene stories. While these stories offered a social fantasy in which society's concerns and paranoia about women turned into reality, from another perspective, they also reflected the ongoing social disintegration after years of secrecy and seclusion, and the excitement and awkwardness felt both by men and women as a result of coexisting in the same environment.

D. Fatma Ture received her PhD from the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Bogazici University and her MA from the Department of Turkish Literature and Language at the same university. Her publications include Women's Memory: The Problem of Sources, (2011); "Jane Eyre and Muhazarat" in Marmara Universitesi Turkluk Arastirmalari Dergisi (1991); "Sexual Politics and Female Narrative" in Sozden Yaziya: Edebiyat Incelemeleri, (1994); "Women's Manners in History" in Sanat Dunyamiz 63 (1996); and "Obscenity out of Freedom" in Tarih ve Toplum (1999).

Womens Memory: The Problem of Sources Hardcover – September 1, 2011
by D. Fatma Ture Birsen Talay Kesoglu
Product details
Hardcover: 285 pages
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing; Unabridged edition edition (September 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 144383193X
ISBN-13: 978-1443831932


Women s archives appear to have been largely disregarded until the last couple of decades. Most countries lack well-documented archives, and the question of methodology has become a common concern and ever more significant for researchers. Aiming to contribute to the growing efforts of developing women s archives, the present book brings together the works of numerous researchers from various disciplines. The researchers contributed to this volume in order to share information and experiences about the problems of sources and archives in women s studies. The articles in the book not only analyse the problems encountered by researchers in the field of women s studies, but also examine perceptions of women in collective memories. The book comprises five parts: Women s Archives and Women s Libraries; Art, Literature and Journal; Letters and Petitions; Oral History; and Cinema. All the articles present fresh ideas on the collective memory, perceptions, experiences, and the collection of documents on women. The aim is to present discussions about the works of oral, written, and visual culture that constitute the collective memory and to form accessible archives on an international level, thereby opening up new areas of research on this subject.

About the Author
D. Fatma Ture is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at Ankara University, Turkey. She received her PhD from the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Bogazici University, and her MA from the Department of Turkish Literature and Language at the same university. Her dissertation title is Images of Istanbul Women in the 1920s. Her publications include Jane Eyre and Muhazarat, Marmara Universitesi Turkluk Arast rmalar Dergisi, 1991; Sexual Politics and Female Narrative, Sozden Yaz ya: Edebiyat Incelemeleri, 1994; Women s Manners in History, Sanat Dunyam z 63, 1996; Obscenity in Popular Literature, Albüm 1, 1997; An a la Franca Woman, Toplumsal Tarih (Special Issue), 1997; Obscenity out of Freedom, Tarih ve Toplum (Special Issue), 1999; Secret History, Tarih ve Toplum (Secial Issue), 2001; and Erotic Popular Literature in the Second Constitution Era, Eleftherotypia, 2006. Birsen Talay Kesoglu graduated from Bogazici University, Turkey, with a BA in Philosophy. She earned her MA in History at Bogazici University and received her PhD from the Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History at the same university with a dissertation entitled Socialist Women s Organisations in Turkey 1975 1980. She was the editor-in-chief of the journal Tarih ve Toplum (History and Society) between the years 1998 2003 and worked for leti im Publishers as an editor of books on historical and political research and memoirs. Her articles have appeared in several journals and books. Her published works are on the late Ottoman period, Turkish modern history, women s history, women s movements, oral history, women s studies and gender. Her latest book Turk Kad n 1918 1919 (Turkish Woman, 1918 1919) was published in 2010 October by the Women s Library and Information Centre Foundation, Istanbul. She has been teaching at Kadir Has University, Istanbul since 2004.

A Social History of Late Ottoman Women: New Perspectives
Duygu Köksal, Anastasia Falierou
Editors Duygu Köksal, Anastasia Falierou
Publisher BRILL, 2013
ISBN 9004255257, 9789004255258
Length 364 pages

In A Social History of the Late Ottoman Women, Duygu Köksal and Anastasia Falierou bring together new research on women of different geographies and communities of the late Ottoman Empire focusing particularly on the ways in which women gained power and exercised agency. 

Contents
Historiography of Late Ottoman Women 1
Class Work and Social Issues 29
Schools Asociations and Curricula 83
Female Ottoman Artists 153
Part Four Womanhood in Print Culture 199
Debating Modernity Identity and Womens Agency 279
Notes on Contributors 339
Index 345
Copyright

Duygu Köksal, Ph. D (1996), University of Texas at Austin, is Associate Professor of Political Science at Boğaziçi University, The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History. She has published several articles in Turkish and in English on the culture, art and literature of Turkey's early Republican era and on politics of gender in Turkey.

Anastasia Falierou, Ph. D. (2012), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, is a lecturer at University of Athens, Department of Turkish and Modern Asiatic Studies. She has published many articles on Turkish nationalism, gender relations during the Young Turk era, and on the clothing of patterns of late Ottoman and early Republican women.




The transnational turn in American studies : Turkey and the United States / Tanfer Emin Tunc & Bahar Gursel (eds.).
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, c2012.
Description
321 p. ; 23 cm.

Emin-Tunc, Tanfer [Browse]
Gursel, Bahar, 1975- [Browse]
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents
TURKISH COALITION OF AMERICA (TCA)
Foreword 9
TANFER EMIN TUNC AND BAHAR GURSEL
Introduction - The Transnational Turn in American Studies:
Turkey and the United States 11
Part I: Literature and the Arts
HIVREN DEMIR-ATAY
Chapter One - In Search of a "Global Love Poem":
Poe in Turkish Literature 27
CAROL LEA CLARK
Chapter Two - Mark Twain, the "Innocent,"
in Ottoman Turkey and Palestine 43
BARIS GUMUSBAS
Chapter Three - American Machine in the Turkish Garden:
Representations of America in Turkish Short Fiction 59
YONCA DENIZARSLANI
Chapter Four - Mirroring America: Impressions of America in
the Writings of Buket Uzuner, Enis Batur and Mustafa Ziyalan 83
GONUL PULTAR
Chapter Five - Portrait of a Turkish American Lady:
§irin/Shirin Devrim or How to Weave A Transnational Tapestry 103
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ERIK MORTENSON
Chapter Six - Importing Counterculture:
On the Road's Turkish Reception 119
AHMET BESE
Chapter Seven - Thoughts on Censorship in Turkey and the West 141
Part II: Popular and Consumer Culture
ISIL ACEHAN
Chapter Eight - Ottoman Coffeehouses in the United States:
The Development of a Transnational Community
in Eastern Massachusetts 155
TRACEY JEAN BOISSEAU
Chapter Nine - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Nation: Hollywood
and the En-Gendering of Modernity in the Youth
of the Early Turkish Republic 169
LAURENCE RAW
Chapter Ten - Hollywood's Turkish Films, 1930-1960:
A Nation Looks at Itself. 191
BAHAR GURSEL
Chapter Eleven - Wild and/or Beautiful?: The Representation
of the American West from a Twenty-First Century Turkish
Perspective 209
TANFER EMIN TUNC
Chapter Twelve - "How I Tried to Leave the Mall and Why
the Mall Wouldn't Let Me": Thoughts on American Consumer
Culture and the Mallification of Turkey 225 
Table of Contents 7
ANNESSA ANN BABIC
Chapter Thirteen - Eastern Eyes for Western Goods, Western Eyes
for Eastern Markets: Consumer Goods, National Identity,
and US-Turkish Relations 253
ONURDIZDAR
Chapter Fourteen - Rediscovering America in Hypertext:
How Turkish Youth Define the United States on Ek§i Sozluk 271
IPEK BEREN YURTTAS
Chapter Fifteen - Aunt Jemima and Mabel: Black Women
and Consumer Culture in the United States and Turkey 289
Notes on Contributors 309
Index 315 ISBN
9783034305525
3034305524
LCCN
2012002927
OCLC
774697218