TY  - GEN
AU  - Koksal,Duygu
AU  - Falierou,Anastasia
TI  - A social history of late Ottoman women: new perspectives 
T2  - The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage
SN  - 9789004225169 (hardback)
AV  - HQ1726.7 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Leiden ; Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Women
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Turkey
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-337) and index
N2  - In 'A Social History of the Late Ottoman Women: New Sources, New Stories', Duygu K©œksal and Anastasia Falierou bring together new research on women of different geographies and communities of the late Ottoman Empire. Making use of archives, literary works, diaries, newspapers, almanacs, art works or cartoons, the contributors focus particularly on the ways in which women gained power and exercised agency in late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey. The articles convincingly show that women's agency cannot be unearthed without narrating how women were involved in shaping their own and others' lives even in the most unexpected areas of their existence. The women's activities described here do not simply reflect modernizing trends or westernizing attitudes-or their defensive denial. They provide an array of local responses where "the local" can never be found (and should never be conceptualized) in its initial, unchanged, or authentic state
ER  -