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Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective to Ottoman Urban History

Penned By Nazan Maksudyan
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Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective to Ottoman Urban History

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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.

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Length 216 Pages
Imprint Berghahn Books
Released January 1, 2014
Identifier (ISBN) 23267366
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Nazan Maksudyan is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Nazan Maksudyan can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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