Duygu Köksal, Ph. D (1996), University of Texas at Austin, is Associate Professor of Political Science at Boğaziçi University, The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History. She has published several articles in Turkish and in English on the culture, art and literature of Turkey's early Republican era and on politics of gender in Turkey.Anastasia Falierou, Ph. D. (2012), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, is a lecturer at University of Athens, Department of Turkish and Modern Asiatic Studies. She has published many articles on Turkish nationalism, gender relations during the Young Turk era, and on the clothing of patterns of late Ottoman and early Republican women.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSDedicationAcknowledgementList of IllustrationsIntroductionDuygu Köksal, Anastasia FalierouPART I: Women as Economic Actors: Class, Work and Social Issues Theater as Career for Ottoman Armenian Women, 1850 to 1910 Hasmik KhalapyanSearching for Women’s Agency in the Tobacco Workshops: Female Tobacco Workers of the Province of SelanikE. Tutku VardağlıWorking From Home: Division of Labor Among Female Workers of Feshane in Late Nineteenth Century IstanbulM. Erdem KabadayıPART II: Education for Life: Schools, Associations and CurriculaThe Limits of Feminism in Muslim-Turkish Women Writers of the Armistice PeriodElif İkbal Mahir MetinsoyBetween Two Worlds: Education and Accultration of Ottoman Jewish WomenRachel SimonGirls’ Institutes and the Rearrangement of the Public and the Private Spheres in TurkeyElif Ekin AkşitPART III: Creating New Lives, Pushing the Boundaries: Ottoman Female ArtistsPainting the Late Ottoman Woman: Portrait(s) of Mihri Müşfik HanımBurcu PelvanoğluThe New Woman in Erotic Popular Literature of 1920s IstanbulFatma TürePART IV: Womanhood in Print CultureEnlightened Mothers and Scientific Housewifes: Discussing Women’s Social Roles in Eurydice (Evridiki) (1870-1873)Anastasia FalierouAn Almanac for Ottoman Women: Notes on Ebüzziya Tevfik’s Takvîmü’n-nisâ (1317/1899)Özgür TüresayWomen’s Representations in Ottoman Cartoons and the Satirical Press on the Eve of the Kemalist Reforms (1919-1924)François GeorgonPart V: Dilemmas of Nationalism: Debating Modernity, Identity and Women’s AgencyFrom a Critique of the Orient to a Critique of Modernity: A Greek-Ottoman-American Writer, Demetra Vaka (1877-1946)Duygu KöksalThe ‘Tomboy’ and the Aristocrat: Nabawiyya Mûsâ and Malak Hifnî Nâsif, Pioneers of Egyptian FeminismCatherine Mayeur-Jaouen Hayriye Melek (Hunc), a Circassian Ottoman Writer between Feminism and NationalismAlexandre ToumarkineNotes on ContributorsIndex