An Ottoman Woman's Adventure in Feminism and the Modernization of Hamidiye

Historical misconceptions are often a historian's deception.

"An Ottoman Princess escaping from the harem" is undoubtedly a very attractive newspaper headline. Especially if this woman gave a speech at the "International Women's Congress" and the content of her speech was published in German and very recently translated into Arabic...

The historian can now proceed based on these data and begin to follow the women's movement in the Ottoman Empire; can map the intellectual world of Ottoman feminists from the content of the speech.

However, this very point of departure is where everything turns upside down. The historian was deceived, the historical error began.

Adil Baktıaya traces an important section from the lives of not a feminist, but an Ottoman woman, Hayriye bin Ayad, and her Ottoman Viking husband, diplomat Ali Nuri. Footprints II. The period of Abdulhamid goes through its modernization and the "Love of Cars", Çamlıca Mansions and pleasures, omnibuses, telegraph wires, state investments, new rich people, the bureaucratic apparatus and the structuring of diplomacy that gradually make its weight felt; It passes through the social, economic and political, the very environment in which these experiences are shaped:

The level of oppression, cruelty and intrigue of all kinds was being increased because the time had come for freedom of all kinds, as well as for feminism. The "struggle" of Hayriye Hanım and Ali Nuri Bey could only be a caricature of the struggle for freedom, because the tyranny they faced was a caricature of the modern state, positioned accordingly and determined by it.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 216

Year of Print: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: h2o Book

Cover: Sevil Tarla
Page Layout: Clear Water

First Print Year: 2016

Number of Pages: 216

Language: Turkish