[Bilimsel Haber] Call for papers for a volume on Ottoman Women's Movements and Print Cultures

[Onur Inal]

Call for papers for a volume on Ottoman Women's Movements and Print Cultures
 
We are soliciting papers on the relationship between the development of
women's movements and the expansion of print culture in the Ottoman Empire
from the Tanzimat period to the early years of the Turkish republic, with a
particular focus on Ottoman women's movements in the Tanzimat period to the
1908 constitutional reform, to the 1911 loss in the Balkan wars and its
continuation in 1912-1913, the 1915 Metz Yerghern/Genocide, and the
formative period that led to the 1923 Republic of Turkey.
 
Given the multi-ethnic and multi-religious heritage of the Ottoman Empire,
the proposed collection aims to highlight women's movements and print
cultures in the diverse religious and linguistic communities or Millets of
the Ottoman Empire including the Ottoman Greek, Armenian, Jewish, Kurdish,
Arab and Turkish communities.
 
We hope that these articles will analyze aspects of the social, cultural and
political contexts in which Ottoman women engaged in cultural production and
participated in public life. The collection aims to stimulate discussion of
the impact of changing ideologies and political circumstances on the women's
movements within the Empire. We would also welcome comparative studies of
women and women's organizations among the Ottoman Millets. Suggested topics
or questions might include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
* The relationship between print culture, Ottoman women's writing and the
development of women's movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

* The conditions and institutions which facilitated or hindered Ottoman
women's access to print culture. Women's attitudes to writing. Was writing
viewed as a means of advancing a cause or as a source of employment? Were
women restricted in terms of content or genre?
 
*Did Ottoman women form alliances or organizations across communal lines? Is
there evidence that women of the different communities were aware of each
other's activities and writing?
 
*Transformations in women's movements and print cultures at the end of the
Ottoman Empire and in the first decade of the Turkish Republic.
 
* Changing ideologies within the late Ottoman Empire and their influence on
the platforms of women's movements within the Empire and its millets.
 
Please submit a 200 word proposal by January 31, 2008 to both of the
co-editors:
 
Dr. Sima Aprahamian
Concordia University
aprhsma at alcor.concordia.ca
 
Dr.Victoria Rowe
Chuo University
vrowe at fps.chuo-u.ac.jp
 
Authors of selected proposals for inclusion in the up-coming publication
will be contacted in mid-February. Final papers need to be submitted by June
1, 2008. The Publishers, University of Texas Press, require the final papers
to be 40 pages maximum double spaced, typed in Times Roman font size 12,
following the citation
guide of the Chicago Manual of style for manuscripts.