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WOMEN,S HISTORY
2015
Melissa Bilal
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The objective of this course is to introduce a body of literature on women's history,
with an eye on the critical historiography produced by women's movements. It brings
together theoretical readings on feminism, historical texts by feminist women of the
period, and secondary sources on the history of women's political action. This course
has also a specific focus on the critical study of gender and sexuality discourses in the
late Ottoman society. It invites students to develop a critical understanding of
Ottoman modenity, re-organization of the political sphere after Tanzimat, and
communal/inter-communal/state-community relationships. While engaging with
primary sources in multiple languages spoken across the Ottoman territory (in English
translation) and secondary sources on women's activities within the intellectual and
activist space, this course also aims to familiarize the students with the debates that
have been shaping the Ottoman feminist historiography for the last two decades.
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Day 1 Introduction
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Primary Sources
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Screening: A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf, Bill Shepherd, Patrick Garland,
Eileen Atkins, oyster Television Film Theatre Ltd., Princeton, NJ: Films for the
Humanities, 2004 [1 990].
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'Women's
History I: Petitions and Court Documents
Day 2 Sources in Ottoman
(18t-2gt centuries)
Leslie Pierce. "Fatma's Story: The Dilemma of a Pregnant Peasant Girl." In Morality
tales: law and gender in the Ottoman court of Aintab. University of California Press,
2003:35I-374.
Baak Tu, "Ottoman Women as Legal and Marital Subjects." InThe Ottoman World,
ed. Christine Woodhead (London and New York: Routledge, 2012).
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Day 1 MIDTERl\4
Day 2 Sources in Ottoman Women's History III: Periodical Press
and
Elizabeth Brown Frierson. "Mirrors out, mirrors in: domestication and rejection of the
foreign in late-Ottoman women's magazines." In Women, patronage, and selfrepresentation in Islamic societies. D. Fairchild Ruggles ed., (Albany: State
Lerna Ekmekiolu. "A Climate for Abduction, A Clmate for Redemption: The
politics of Incusion during and after the Armenian Genocide," Comparative Studies
in Socief, and Histoy 55, no. 3 (2013): 522-53.
Day
A s p as
2. 1
(Spring 200
8) : 44 - 69
Maral Aktokmakyan, "Comparative Study of Charlotte Bront's Jane Eyre and SrPuhi
Dussap's Mayda,;' inLraper Hasaragagan Kidutyunneri, No. 1-2,2010: 330-339,
Melissa Bila|, "Orof Mayr Hayasdanin: Song and Testimony." In Thou need'st not
lullaby in
weep, for I have wept full sore; An ffictive genealogy of the Armenian
Turkey, Unpublished PhD dissetation, University of Chicago, 20T3 : \ 57,221,
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Amila Buturovic and Irvin Cemil Schick, "Introduction." In Women in the Ottoman
Balkans : Gender, Culture and History. Amila Buturovic and Irvin Cemil Schick
(eds.) London, GBR: I.B. Tauris,2007 1-I0,
Janet Klein, "En-Gendering Nationalism: The 'Woman Question' in Kurdish
Nationalist Discourse of the Late ottoman Period." In Women of a non-state nation"
25_5|.
the Kurds. Shahrzad Mojab (ed.), Costa Mesa: MazdaPublishers, 2001:
Alexandre T'oumarkine, Hayriye Melek (Hun), "A Circassian ottoman writer
Women:
between feminism and nationalism." In A Social History of Late ottoman
Brill,
Boston:
(eds.), Leiden,
I,{ew perspectives, Duygu Kksal and Anastasia Falierou
2013:3
8-335.
Zafer Toprak, "The Family, Feminism, and the State during the Young Turk Period,
1908-1918." In Premire Recontre Internationale sur l'Empire Ottoman et la Turquie
Moderne, Edhem Eldem (ed.), Istanbul and Paris: ISIS, 1991, 441-452.
Efi Avdela. "Class, ethnicity, and Gender in Post-Ottoman Thessaloniki, The Great
Tobacco Strike of 1914." In Borderlines: Genders and Identities in War and Peace,
1870_ 1930,Bil]lie Melman ed. ew York: Routledge, 1998): 42T-434.
yavuz Selim Karakla. "Hakk- Sktt: The General Strike of Women Silk Workers
at Bursa and Bilecik (1910)," paper submitted to the conference Women in the Arts
and Writing: Negotiating the Ottoman Public Sphere in the ]9th and early 20th
Centuries, Boazii University, April 2006.
Donald Quataert. "Ottoman Women, Households and Textile Manufacturing, i800IgI4." In Women in Middle Eastern History; Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender,
Nikki R. Keddie and Beth Baron eds. (Yale University Press, 1991).
Victoria Rowe, "Education is the key: Sibyl and Mariam Khatisian." In A HistorY of
Armenian Women's Writing 1 88 0- ] 9 2 2, Gomidas Institute, 2009 : 7 5 -I30.