In A Social History of the Late Ottoman Women: New Perspectives, Duygu Koksal and Anastasia Falierou bring together new research on women of different geographies and communities of the late Ottoman Empire. Making use of archives, literary works, diaries, newspapers, almanacs, art works or cartoons, the contributors focus particularly on the ways in which women gained power and exercised agency in late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey. The articles convincingly show that women's agency cannot be unearthed without narrating how women were involved in shaping their own and...
In A Social History of the Late Ottoman Women: New Perspectives, Duygu Koksal and Anastasia Falierou bring together new research on women of di...