This is a graduate-level survey course on various aspects of the history of women in Ottoman and Republican Turkish society. It aims to provide an introduction to the following historical "moments" and issues : the status of women according to Islamic law; women in rural society; provincial urban society and women; women of the royal household and court from the 14th to the 18th centuries; women in 19th century Ottoman modernization and related gender issues; the beginnings of active state involvement in maternity and abortion; the development of female education; the emergence of women into public life; marriage, family life, and divorce during the Ottoman reform period; New Ottoman and Young Turk views on the emancipation of women; male and female sexuality in Ottoman Turkish literature; stages in the development, subsumption, and revitalization of women's and feminist movements; gender issues in the Republican era.
Issues in the Gender History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey (HIST 524)
| Programs\Type | Required | Core Elective | Area Elective |
| Computer Science and Engineering - With Master's Degree | * | ||
| Gender Studies - With Master's Degree | * | ||
| History - Non Thesis | * | ||
| History - With Master's Degree | * | ||
| History - With Thesis | * | ||
| Leaders for Industry Biological Sciences and Bioengineering - Non Thesis | * | ||
| Leaders for Industry Industrial Engineering - Non Thesis | * | ||
| Leaders for Industry Materials Science and Engineering - Non Thesis | * | ||
| Leaders for Industry Mechatronics Engineering - Non Thesis | * | ||
| Turkish Studies - Non Thesis | * | ||
| Turkish Studies - With Thesis | * |
CONTENT
OBJECTIVE
Graduate course on the social history of Ottoman and Turkish women.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: a.) Describe the specific problematics related to the Ottoman and modern Turkish gender history, together with a deeper knowledge of themes to be selected by the students for course paper. b.) Identify and analyze the key developments, institutions and individuals related to the Ottoman and modern Turkish gender history c.) Relate the key developments, institutions and individuals related to the Ottoman and modern Turkish gender history to an overall conception of the subject matter. d.) Describe large themes over a relatively long span of history. e.) Compare institutions, laws, movements and individuals of different periods, deploying historical argument. f.) Develop independent study based on printed primary sources. g.) Evaluate material to produce, to a deadline, a coherent and cogent argument, developed through the mode of assessment.
PROGRAMME OUTCOMES
1. Develop and deepen the current and advanced knowledge in the field with original thought and/or research and come up with innovative definitions based on Master's degree qualifications 5
2. Conceive the interdisciplinary interaction which the field is related with ; come up with original solutions by using knowledge requiring proficiency on analysis, synthesis and assessment of new and complex ideas. 4
3. Evaluate and use new information within the field in a systematic approach. 3
4. Develop an innovative knowledge, method, design and/or practice or adapt an already known knowledge, method, design and/or practice to another field; research, conceive, design, adapt and implement an original subject. 3
5. Critical analysis, synthesis and evaluation of new and complex ideas. 4
6. Gain advanced level skills in the use of research methods in the field of study. 4
7. Contribute the progression in the field by producing an innovative idea, skill, design and/or practice or by adapting an already known idea, skill, design, and/or practice to a different field independently. 2
8. Broaden the borders of the knowledge in the field by producing or interpreting an original work or publishing at least one scientific paper in the field in national and/or international refereed journals. 1
9. Demonstrate leadership in contexts requiring innovative and interdisciplinary problem solving. 1
10. Develop new ideas and methods in the field by using high level mental processes such as creative and critical thinking, problem solving and decision making. 2
11. Investigate and improve social connections and their conducting norms and manage the actions to change them when necessary. 2
12. Defend original views when exchanging ideas in the field with professionals and communicate effectively by showing competence in the field. 1
13. Ability to communicate and discuss orally, in written and visually with peers by using a foreign language at least at a level of European Language Portfolio C1 General Level. 2
14. Contribute to the transition of the community to an information society and its sustainability process by introducing scientific, technological, social or cultural improvements. 1
15. Demonstrate functional interaction by using strategic decision making processes in solving problems encountered in the field. 1
16. Contribute to the solution finding process regarding social, scientific, cultural and ethical problems in the field and support the development of these values. 1
1. Develop the ability to use critical, analytical, and reflective thinking and reasoning 5
2. Reflect on social and ethical responsibilities in his/her professional life. 3
3. Gain experience and confidence in the dissemination of project/research outputs 5
4. Work responsibly and creatively as an individual or as a member or leader of a team and in multidisciplinary environments. 4
5. Communicate effectively by oral, written, graphical and technological means and have competency in English. 5
6. Independently reach and acquire information, and develop appreciation of the need for continuously learning and updating. 5
1. Demonstrate command of comparative perspectives, which may include the ability to compare the histories of different societies, or cultures awareness of continuity and change over extended time spans. 5
2. Construct concepts and theories derived from the humanities and social sciences. 4
3. Analyze the evidence from the research to support a historical argument for an answer to a research question. 3
4. Apply a critical perspective to evaluating historical arguments, including the quality of the sources, the validity of the interpretations of those sources, and the soundness of the argument's use of evidence to support a historical interpretation. 4
5. Develop and sustain historical arguments in a variety of literary forms, formulating appropriate questions and utilizing evidence. 4
1. Demonstrate command of comparative perspectives, which may include the ability to compare the histories of different societies, or cultures awareness of continuity and change over extended time spans. 5
2. Construct concepts and theories derived from the humanities and social sciences. 4
3. Analyze the evidence from the research to support a historical argument for an answer to a research question. 3
4. Apply a critical perspective to evaluating historical arguments, including the quality of the sources, the validity of the interpretations of those sources, and the soundness of the argument's use of evidence to support a historical interpretation. 4
5. Develop and sustain historical arguments in a variety of literary forms, formulating appropriate questions and utilizing evidence. 4
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ASSESSMENT METHODS and CRITERIA
| Percentage (%) | |
| Final | 50 |
| Term-Paper | 50 |
RECOMENDED or REQUIRED READINGS
| Readings |
?Women?, from The Korân (Transl. by George Sale) (London: Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd, n.d.), pp 71-96. Barbara Stowasser : ?Gender Issues and Contemporary Quran Interpretation?, in Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad & John L. Esposito (eds.), Islam, Gender, & Social Change (New York; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998), 30-44. Joseph Schacht : An Introduction to Islamic Law (Oxford : At the Clarendon Press, 1964), pp161-168, 175-179. Judith E.Tucker : In the House of the Law. Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (Berkeley; Los Angeles; London : University of California Press, 1998), 179-186. L.Peirce: ?Shifting Boundaries: Images of Ottoman Royal Women in the 16th and 17th Centuries?, Critical Matrix 4, Fall/Winter 1988, 43-82. Fariba Zarinebaf: ?Women, Patronage, and Charity in Ottoman Istanbul?, in Amira el-Azhary Sonbol, Beyond the Exotic. Women?s History in Islamic Societies (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2005), 89-101. Lady Mary Montagu : Turkish Embassy Letters (London : Virago Books, 1994), Letters 27, 30-32, 34, 36, 39-41, 46-48. Meyda Yeğenoğlu : Colonial Fantasies: Towards a feminist reading of Orientalism (Cambridge UP, 1998), chapter 3 (?Supplementing the Orientalist Lack: European Ladies in the Harem?) Fanny Davis : The Ottoman Lady. A Social History From 1718 to 1918 (New York; Westport, Conn.; London : Greenwood Press, 1986), pp 61-97, 119-129. Tuba Demirci: ?Family, State and the Blurring of the Public and the Private: Ottoman State and the Emergence of ?Marriage Proper? in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century? (unpublished article) Fanny Davis : The Ottoman Lady. A Social History From 1718 to 1918 (New York; Westport, Conn.; London : Greenwood Press, 1986). Mervat F. Hatem : ?The Professionalization of Health and the Control of Women?s Bodies as Modern Governmentalities in Nineteenth-Century Egypt?, in Madeline C. Zilfi (ed.): Women in the Ottoman Empire. Middle Eastern Women in the Early Modern Era (Leiden; New York; Köln : Brill, 1997), pp 66-80. Tuba Demirci and Selçuk Akşin Somel: ?Control over Feminine Body, Procreation and Public Health: Demography, Bio-Politics and Abortion in the Ottoman Empire (1789-1908)? (Journal of the History of Sexuality Vol.17, September 2008) Berrak Burçak : The Status of the Elite Muslim Women in Istanbul under the Reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876-1908). Unpublished MA Thesis (Ankara : Bilkent University, 1997), 11-13, 23-29, 41-77. Donald Quataert : ?Ottoman Women, Households, and Textile Manufacturing, 1800-1914?, in Nikki R.Keddie and Beth Baron (eds.) : Women in Middle Eastern History. Shifting Boundaries in Sex and Gender (New Haven and London : Yale University Press, 1991), 161-176 Aynur Demirdirek : ?In Pursuit of the Ottoman Women?s Movement?, in Zehra F.Arat (ed.): Edib, Adivar: ?The Occupation of Smyrna and the Internal Upheaval?, from The Turkish Ordeal (New York & London: The Century Co., 1928), pp 19-50 Hulya Adak: ?National Myths and Self-Narrations: Mustafa Kemal's Nutuk and Halide Edib's Memoirs and The Turkish Ordeal" in Irzik, Sibel and Guven Guzeldere, eds. Special edition of The South Atlantic Quarterly: Relocating the Fault Lines: Turkey beyond the East-West Divide. Vol. 102 (2/3) (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), pp 509-529. Haris Exertzoglou: ?The Cultural Uses of Consumption: Negotiating Class, Gender, and Nation in the Ottoman Urban Centers During the 19th Century?, Int.J.Middle East Stud. 35 (2003), 77-101. Dobrinka Parousheva: ?The Challenge of Change: Bulgarian Women in Late 19th and Early 20th Century?, Études balkaniques 3-4 (1998), 48-66. Amnon Cohen: ?A Tale of Two Women?, Avigdor Levy (ed.), Jews, Turks, Ottomans. A Shared History, Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Century (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002), 119-126. Rachel Simon: ?Jewish Female Education in the Ottoman Empire, 1840-1914?, Avigdor Levy (ed.), Jews, Turks, Ottomans. A Shared History, Fifteenth Through the Twentieth Century (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002), 127-152. Yeşim Arat : ?The Project of Modernity and Women in Turkey?, in S. Bozdoğan & R. Kasaba, eds., Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1997), pp.95-113. (available on electronic reserve under ALTINAY, CULT 291) Ayse Gul Altinay : The Myth of the Military Nation. Militarism, Gender, and Education in Turkey (New York; Houndsmills, England: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004), pp 33-58. Cenk Özbay ve Ayşecan Terzioğlu (derl.): Türkiye?de Cinsiyet Kültürleri. Dicle Koğacıoğlu Kitabı (İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2019). |