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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 53–82.
Published: 01 July 2009
...Ruth Barzilai-Lumbroso This paper discusses the study of Ottoman dynastic history through women’s writings, such as harem women’s personal letter correspondence, women’s harem memoirs and recollections, and foreign women travelers’ accounts, published in popular historical magazines in Turkey...
View articletitled, Turkish Men and the History of <span class="search-highlight">Ottoman</span> Women: Studying the History of the <span class="search-highlight">Ottoman</span> Dynasty’s Private Sphere through Women’s Writings
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 116–122.
Published: 01 November 2005
...Sarah G. Moment Atis Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem , Lewis Reina . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 2004 , 297 pp. $29.95 paper. Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005 116 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 116–118.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Burcu Polat Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500–1900 , Ze’evi Dror . Berkeley; Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2006 242 pages. ISBN 9780-5202-4564-8 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011 116...
View articletitled, Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the <span class="search-highlight">Ottoman</span> Middle East, 1500–1900 by Dror Ze’evi
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (3): 119–121.
Published: 01 November 2011
...Najwa al-Qattan “Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in Ottoman Aleppo , Semerdjian Elyse . Syracuse : Syracuse University Press , 2008 . 247 pages. ISBN 978-0-8156-3173-6 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011...
View articletitled, “Off the Straight Path”: Illicit Sex, Law, and Community in <span class="search-highlight">Ottoman</span> Aleppo by Elyse Semerdjian
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 222–243.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Seçil Yılmaz Abstract Late Ottoman physicians used medical advice literature to impact syphilis transmission and treatment by cultivating men’s rather than women’s hygiene, self-care, and sexual practices. Soldiers and migrant workers were understood to be the main vectors of syphilis beginning...
View articletitled, Threats to Public Order and Health: Mobile Men as Syphilis Vectors in Late <span class="search-highlight">Ottoman</span> Medical Discourse and Practice
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Published: 01 November 2018
Figure 4. A Medinese family that spanned Ottoman, British, and US empires: Yusef Basrawi, born and brought up in Ottoman Istanbul, with his Damascene wife, Arabia Kotob (left); their daughter, Bahija (right); and two younger sons, Fahmi (first row left) and Bahjat (first row right), pose
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 101–103.
Published: 01 March 2019
...Ellen Fleischmann This brilliant book explores with range and depth many major themes in multiple scholarly fields concerned with the late Ottoman Levant. It is a valuable contribution to all of them. While beautifully written, it is not a book for beginners. I recommend it for graduate...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 395–397.
Published: 01 November 2019
...N. İpek Hüner Cora Reference Dankoff Robert . 2006 . Review of The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society , by Andrews Walter and Kalpaklı Mehmet . Speculum 81 , no. 2 ( 2006 ): 471 – 72 . The last...
View articletitled, Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender Bending, and Subversion in <span class="search-highlight">Ottoman</span> Intellectual History
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 492–498.
Published: 01 November 2021
...), in the nineteenth century only two major powers existed in the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire and the Qajar Empire of Iran. It was only in the twentieth century that the number of states increased almost tenfold with the establishment of Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and others after 1925...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 245–247.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Onur Çezik [email protected] Moral Crisis in the Ottoman Empire: Society, Politics, and Gender during WWI . Çiğdem Oğuz . London : Tauris , 2021 . xv + 225 pages. isbn 9780755642533 . Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 In an era...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (3): 291–316.
Published: 01 November 2023
... science gender education astronomy In 1874–75 American Protestant missionaries published two astronomy textbooks in Beirut. In a corner of the Ottoman Empire, a domain best known among historians for the long-standing scientific contributions of elite Muslim men, it is noteworthy that one of those...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575496.
Published: 10 January 2025
... Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces Talin Suciyan Syracuse University Press, 2023 280 pages. ISBN 9780815638193 Reviewed by DZOVINAR DERDERIAN Talin Suciyan s new book works from a rich source base that includes Ottoman state documents, Armenian memoirs, newspapers, and largely unexplored documents from...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 2–30.
Published: 01 March 2016
... experience of Armenian-Muslim intermarriage. The court did more than just shape a communal identity. Sharia courts, rather than millet courts, maintained the boundaries of inclusion and exclusion, and, as this study shows, Ottoman subjects asserted a nondominant identity in these courts that simultaneously...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (3): 346–350.
Published: 01 November 2020
... in the contemporary Middle East. The conference began with a keynote presentation by Mary Roberts, professor of art history and nineteenth-century studies at the University of Sydney. A specialist in nineteenth-century British and Ottoman art and in the history of European and Ottoman exchanges, Roberts focused...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 217–220.
Published: 01 July 2018
... populations and later mass deportations and massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century—most notably the genocide of 1915—produced a large archive of objects for interrogation and have informed a great deal of scholarly inquiry. A smattering...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 32–57.
Published: 01 July 2013
... Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic
and is considered to be symbol of national self-determination. She is
also a prominent figure in the Turkish literary canon. Nevertheless, her
criticisms of secular national patriarchy represented by Kemalism led to
her exile from Turkey between 1926-39 during...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 March 2021
... domestic duties to women in Turkey, already living in a strongly patriarchal society. Copyright © 2021 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2021 Turkey conservatism Cold War motherhood 11. Tlabar was granddaughter of the last grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire (Ahmet Tevfik...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (1): 75–102.
Published: 01 March 2010
... yet relatively developed account that
may be of use to future researchers. In addition, the article elucidates
some of the culture of the practice of traditional Islamic calligraphy
in general and in the late Ottoman Empire and Turkey in particular.
Th at culture, especially...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 63–88.
Published: 01 November 2012
... the printing press and political reforms during the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish republic silenced sexual discourses, television brought them back as part of the new gender regime and disseminated a gender “deviance” model of homosexuality. Against this background, the rest of the article analyzes...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (1): 59–80.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Sara Farhan Abstract This article explores the history of Iraqi women’s participation in the medical profession as accredited physicians in the first half of the twentieth century. It begins with a discussion of women’s exclusion from late Ottoman medical education faculties and their reliance...
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