Women and the City, Women in the City

A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History

210 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten Gruppen Frauen und Mädchen
• ISBN: 9781782384113
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2014
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Nazan Maksudyan