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• 1. [Article] Love, Marriage, and Motherhood: Changing Expectations of Women in Late OttomanIstanbul

  This study examines the early work of famous novelist Halide Edip Adıvar against the background of public discussions on women and gender in late-Ottoman society. Gender relations and women's issues constituted ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Love, Marriage, and Motherhood: Changing Expectations of Women in Late OttomanIstanbul Author: Basci, Pelin Year: 2003 This study examines the early work of famous novelist Halide Edip Adıvar against the background of public discussions on women and gender in late-Ottoman society. Gender relations and women's issues constituted a fertile ground for the debate about social transformation. Edip and her feminist peers wrote about passionate love, companionship in marriage, the significance of motherhood, and women's legal rights in their works. This reflects women's vision of new gender relations and provides evidence for their contributions to the forging of Turkish modernity prior to the founding of the Turkish Republic. It also illustrates the hybrid nature of culture, which resists unconditional adoption of Western models. Title: Love, Marriage, and Motherhood: Changing Expectations of Women in Late OttomanIstanbul Author: Basci, Pelin Year: 2003 This study examines the early work of famous novelist Halide Edip Adıvar against the background of public discussions on women and gender in late-Ottoman society. Gender relations and women's issues constituted a fertile ground for the debate about social transformation. Edip and her feminist peers wrote about passionate love, companionship in marriage, the significance of motherhood, and women's legal rights in their works. This reflects women's vision of new gender relations and provides evidence for their contributions to the forging of Turkish modernity prior to the founding of the Turkish Republic. It also illustrates the hybrid nature of culture, which resists unconditional adoption of Western models. Close

• 2. [Article] Advertising 'the New Woman': fashion, beauty, and health in women's world

  This study aims to re-examine Women's World, (a Middle Eastern women's publication that was active between 1913 and 1921), from a gender aware, but broadly constructed, interdisciplinary perspective that ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Advertising 'the New Woman': fashion, beauty, and health in women's world Author: Basci, Pelin Year: 2005 This study aims to re-examine Women's World, (a Middle Eastern women's publication that was active between 1913 and 1921), from a gender aware, but broadly constructed, interdisciplinary perspective that integrates women's studies with studies of advertising and consumption. A feminist journal with a relatively long publication life, Women's World contained a substantial number of advertisements encouraging the consumption of modem goods and services. Many of these notices promised to address the beauty, health and fashion needs of modem women, thus constructing in effect the public image of "the new woman." of that image, in turn, should facilitate our understanding of both the construction of the modem self in the emerging commercial culture and the ambivalent relationship between gender and modernity in the late-Ottoman Middle East. Title: Advertising 'the New Woman': fashion, beauty, and health in women's world Author: Basci, Pelin Year: 2005 This study aims to re-examine Women's World, (a Middle Eastern women's publication that was active between 1913 and 1921), from a gender aware, but broadly constructed, interdisciplinary perspective that integrates women's studies with studies of advertising and consumption. A feminist journal with a relatively long publication life, Women's World contained a substantial number of advertisements encouraging the consumption of modem goods and services. Many of these notices promised to address the beauty, health and fashion needs of modem women, thus constructing in effect the public image of "the new woman." of that image, in turn, should facilitate our understanding of both the construction of the modem self in the emerging commercial culture and the ambivalent relationship between gender and modernity in the late-Ottoman Middle East. Close