Overview

Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Ottoman Empire is a tale of how women’s triumphs as well as their failures shaped a global society—not despite, but because of, gender. The Ottoman Empire was among the longest-lived polities in history, stretching between the thirteenth and twentieth centuries across three continents, several seas, and scores of cities, deserts, mountain ranges, rivers, and forests. This volume provides a compendium of idiosyncratic life stories and explores how women from these eras and regions understood the shape of the world in which they lived, and how they brought their consciousness of their gender to their efforts to re-shape it. Among the questions explored in the book are how women have negotiated and constructed the public and private spheres, how to define “women’s speech” in a world mediated by men and male-dominated genres and institutions, and how women experienced their bodies as sites of politically inflected reproduction, death and decay. The book is thus an accessibly offbeat feminist overview of the field of Ottoman History that provides students, scholars, general readers, and non-specialists with insights into the lives and work of both ordinary Ottoman women and celebrated Ottoman women, women who failed despite their best efforts and women who succeeded against all odds—suicides, spies and murderers as well as queens, scientists and poets.

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Author:   Ruth Miller (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.980kg
ISBN:  

9780367761875

ISBN 10:   0367761874
Pages:   428
Publication Date:   26 March 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: The Beginning: Prophecy and Poetry 1. Malhun Hatun (d. 1323): Mother of the Dynasty 2. Mihri Hatun (1460-1515): Distinguished Court Poet 3. Zeynep Hatun (fifteenth century): Elusive Touchstone of the Poet Biographers 4. A’isha al-Ba‘uniyya (d. 1517): Mystic, Mufti, and Spiritual Model Part 2: A Global Empire: Networks of Influence, Webs of Power, and “The Sultanate of Women” 5. Hürrem Sultan (1502-1558): Roxelana, the Queen and the Witch 6. Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi (1510-1569): Heroine of the Inquisition 7. Nurbanu Sultan (1525-1583): Architect of an Unprecedented Charitable Foundation 8. Şakire Hatun (circa the 1570s): Plaintiff and “Warrior” 9. Elizabeth Báthory (1560-1614): The Bloody Countess 10. Gülnuş Sultan (1642-1715): The Huntress Who Ushered in the Tulip Period Part 3: The Ottoman Baroque: Art, Revolution, and Orientalism in the Long Eighteenth Century 11. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762): Errant Embodiment of the European Enlightenment 12. Dilhayat Kalfa (1710-1780): Celebrated Composer 13. Laskarina Bouboulina (1771-1825): Champion of the Greek Revolution 14. Esma İbret Hanım (b. 1780): Master Calligrapher 15. Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann (1819-1881): Orientalist Painter Part 4: The Age of National Consciousness: Feminist Witnessing and Feminist Disruption 16. Maryana Marrash (1848-1919): Muse, Poet, and Essayist 17. Fatma Aliye (1862-1936): New Woman and Novelist 18. Zabel Yesayan (1878-1943): Genre-Defining Witness to the Armenian Genocide 19. Huda Sha’arawi (1879-1947): Charismatic Founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union 20. Celile Hikmet (1880-1956): Subversive Modernist Painter 21. Halide Edip (1884-1964): The Turkish Republic’s Foremost Feminist Part 5: The End: Making Things Fall Apart 22. Sarah Aaronsohn (1890-1917): A Spy in the Levant 23. Anastasia Golovina (1850-1933) and Safiye Ali (1894-1952): Medical Practitioners Across Borders 24. Sabiha Sertel (1895-1968): Dissident Publishing Phenomenon 25. Sabiha Gökçen (1913-2001): The World’s First Female Fighter Pilot

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Ruth Miller is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Her publications include The Biopolitics of Embryos and Alphabets: A Reproductive History of the Nonhuman (2017) and The Limits of Bodily Integrity: Abortion, Adultery, and Rape Legislation in Comparative Perspective (2007).

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