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WWI, Women and the Foundation of the Turkish Republic (1923)Sevinç Elaman, 29.9.14 On this day, in August 1914, women in Britain officially joined the war effort, with the formation of the Women’s Defence Relief Corps. British women’s roles during the First World War, and the impact the war had on the advancement of women’s active […]

Turkish Ladies, English Liberty: Toward a Psychoanalysis of Difference in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Letters In last week’s blog post, I used Ferdinand de Saussure’s theory of signs to analyze the recent internet buzz about women in Iran studying to become ninjas. If you haven’t already seen the video about it, click [here] or check out […]

The Contribution of Turkish Women to the Modernization of Turkey Judy Ayyildiz The word “Feminism” is a term for the worldwide movement for gender equality under the law. For women, both in England and America, winning the right to vote was a long road, which began in the 1850’s, and ended only after the First […]

ANNA SECOR Abstract: In 1717, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu accompanied her husband, Edward Wortley Montagu, on his ambassadorial mission to the Ottoman court. During their sojourn, Montagu composed what would become her most famous writings: the collection of edited letters which constitute the Turkish Embassy Letters. The reading of the Letters presented in this paper […]

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Ottoman Turkey, 1717 Women who traveled to other lands sometimes made positive interactions with women in their host country. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was the wife of the British ambassador to Ottoman Turkey, where upper class women were kept away from the eyes of men outside their families. In visiting the […]

Turkish Women, a brief historical survey Women at Harem Although quite a number of years have passed over the official declaration on the elimination of discrimination against women by the United Nations and although 1975 has official been declared as the International Women’s Year, yet we cannot say that in the year 2003 the major […]