Ebru Boyar, Ph.D. Cambridge University, is a Professor at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. Her publications include Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans: Empire Lost, Relations Altered (London, 2007), A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (Cambridge, 2010) and an edited volume, Entertainment Among the Ottomans (Leiden, 2019).Kate Fleet, Ph.D. SOAS, London University, is Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, University of Cambridge. Her publications include European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State (Cambridge, 1999), A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (Cambridge, 2010) and an edited volume, Making a Living in Ottoman Anatolia (Leiden, 2021).

“Ultimately the collection is a rich offering of evidence, from a range of sources, places, and times, that decisively refutes the notion of Ottoman women as inconsequential, invisible, and wholly passive actors in Ottoman history.”Elizabeth Matsushita in SCTIW Review , November 1, 2016.

• Preface: Ebru Boyar and Kate FleetCh. 1: Ottoman Women in Public Space: an Introduction, Edith Gülçin Ambros, Ebru Boyar, Palmira Brummett, Kate Fleet, Svetla IanevaCh. 2: The ‘What If?’ of the Ottoman Female: Authority, Ethnography, and Conversation, Palmira BrummettCh. 3: Female Actors, Producers and Money Makers in Ottoman Public Space: the Case of the Late Ottoman Balkans, Svetla IanevaCh. 4: The Powerful Public Presence of the Ottoman Female Consumer, Kate FleetCh. 5: The Extremes of Visibility: Slave Women in Ottoman Public Space, Kate FleetCh. 6: Frivolity and Flirtation, Edith Gülçin AmbrosCh. 7: An Imagined Moral Community: Ottoman Female Public Presence, Honour and Marginality, Ebru BoyarCh. 8: The Public Presence and Political Visibility of Ottoman Women, Ebru BoyarBibliographyIndex