Women and the City, Women in the City

Nazan Maksudyan is 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.

“An impressive work of seminal scholarship, Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective of Ottoman Urban History is a compendium of seven original articles… Enhanced with the inclusion of two pages of notes on contributors; an eighteen page bibliography; and a twenty-one page index, Women and the City, Women in the City is an especially recommended addition to academic library Women's Studies, Turkish Cultural History, and Ottoman History reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists." · Midwest Book Review “This is a pioneering work on gender in the city in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world and fills an important lacunae in the literature on this subject. The different sections and chapters complement one another and the book as a whole is highly readable and compelling. Through richly textured case studies, the book demonstrates the central role of women as actors in the public sphere in the Ottoman Empire at a time of great political, social and cultural turmoil, challenging age-old stereotypes about women in the Middle East.” · Leyla Neyzi, Sabancı University“All the essays display a very high academic standard and, according to my judgement, they deal with original and hitherto under-researched topics. An additional benefit is that all of them use various original sources in the different languages of the region that have not been made accessible before.” · Florian Riedler, Zentrum Moderner Orient

• List of FiguresPreface: Kaffee und KuchenAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Gendered Perspective to Ottoman Urban HistoryPART I: WOMEN AND REORGANIZATION OF URBAN LIFEChapter 1. Times of Tamaddun: Gender, Urbanity, and Temporality in Colonial EgyptOn BarakChapter 2. Women in the Post-Ottoman Public Sphere: Anti-Veiling Campaigns and the Gendered Reshaping of Urban Space in Early Republican TurkeySevgi AdakPART II: MALE SPACES, FEMALE SPACES? LIMITS OF AND BREACHES IN THE GENDERED ORDER OF THE CITYChapter 3. Playing with Gender: The Carnival of al-Qays in JeddahUlrike FreitagChapter 4. Mixed Marriage, Prostitution, Survival: Reintegrating Armenian Women into Post-Ottoman CitiesVahé TachjianChapter 5. “This time women as well got involved in politics!”: Nineteenth Century Ottoman Women's Organizations and Political AgencyNazan MaksudyanPART III: DISCOURSES AND NARRATIVES OF GENDER IN THE URBAN CONTEXTChapter 6. Early Republican Turkish Orientalism? The Erotic Picture of an Algerian Woman and the notion of Beauty between the “West” and the “Orient”Nora LafiChapter 7. The Urban Experience in Women’s Memoirs: Mediha Kayra's World War I NotebookChristoph HerzogNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex