2016/01/01 by Efi Kanner · 5 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Historical Gender and Feminism Studies #Turkey's Politics and Society #Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics #Empire #Feminism #Period (music) #Historiography #Nationality #Early modern period #Nationalism #Politics #Interwar period #Gender studies #Long nineteenth century #Sociology #History #Political science #Ancient history #Law #World War II #Art #Immigration #Aesthetics
paper · doi:10.1353/jowh.2016.0025
published in Journal of women's history 28(3), 66-92 (Binghamton University)
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In this article, I attempt to examine the discourses on women’s rights and feminist interventions that appear amongst various ethno-religious groups in the Ottoman Empire, Greece, and later Turkey from the mid-nineteenth century to the interwar period. These discourses and initiatives are approached as effects of communication between ethno-religiously disparate people across the entire Balkans. This interaction created a common canvas of challenges and imperatives with significant differentiations. The latter are linked to the different political agendas prevailing in each community. Such an approach enables us to revisit such dominant historiographical concepts as nationality or the millet and their role in people’s everyday lives during this period. This article also attempts to correlate feminism to nationalism, namely to the stance vis-à-vis the empire.