A Social History of Late Ottoman Women - New Perspectives

In A Social History of the Late Ottoman Women, Duygu Köksal and Anastasia Falierou bring together new research on women of different geographies and communities of the late Ottoman Empire focusing particularly on the ways in which women gained power and exercised agency.

About the author

Duygu Köksal, Ph. D (1996), University of Texas at Austin, is Associate Professor of Political Science at Boğaziçi University, The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History. She has published several articles in Turkish and in English on the culture, art and literature of Turkey's early Republican era and on politics of gender in Turkey.

Anastasia Falierou, Ph. D. (2012), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, is a lecturer at University of Athens, Department of Turkish and Modern Asiatic Studies. She has published many articles on Turkish nationalism, gender relations during the Young Turk era, and on the clothing of patterns of late Ottoman and early Republican women.

Product details

• Assisted by: Anastasia Falierou (Editor), Duygu Köksal (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2013
• EAN: 9789004225169
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22516-9
• No. of pages: 364
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Ottoman Empire and Its Heritag
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories