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Author Ture, Fatma, author

Title Facts and fantasies : images of Istanbul women in the 1920s / by D. Fatma Türe
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 386 pages)
Summary The question of women and their rights was a prominent and ongoing topic of debate in the popular press of Turkey in the 1920s. This work presents an insightful analysis of those debates and follows its traces in obscene literature of the period, as a marginal, but influential branch of popular literature. Popular literature of the time carefully scrutinizes urban Istanbul women in particular, from their biological responsibilities to their behavior in the public arena, down to their clothe ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English and Ottoman Turkish
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Subject Women in literature.
Women -- Turkey -- Istanbul
Turkish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Gender studies: women.
Popular culture.
Sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Turkish literature
Women
Women in literature
Turkey -- Istanbul
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1443878790
9781443878791