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Behind Turkish Lattices: The Story of a Turkish Woman's Life : New Introduction by Carolyn Goffman / Hester Donaldson Jenkins.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultures in Dialogue: First SeriesPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781463210083
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Frontmatter -- CULTURES IN DIALOGUE -- INTRODUCTION -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- I. BABYHOOD -- II. THE SCHOOL LIFE OF A TURKISH GIRL -- III. WHERE THE BROOK AND RIVER MEET -- IV. MARRIAGE -- V. HUSBANDS AND WIVES -- VI. DIVORCE -- VII. TURKISH HOUSEKEEPING -- VIII. HOW A TURKISH WOMAN AMUSES HERSELF -- IX. THE REAPER DEATH -- X. RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES -- XI. WORKERS AND BEGGARS -- XII. CHARACTERISTICS AND POSSIBILITIES
Summary: Hester Donaldson Jenkins (1869-1941), a professor at the American College for Girls in Constantinople from 1900-1909, wrote enthusiastically about the Young Turks who seemed to promise new freedoms for Ottoman women. Jenkins uses her own observations of Constantinople, her students, and their families to construct an account of a "typical" Turkish Muslim woman's life cycle at this turning point in Ottoman history. She directs her comments toward childhood, education, marriage, polygamy, and divorce, in order to correct Western misapprehensions. In its confidence in the bright prospects of American influence and Ottoman reform, this book captures an optimistic moment in which social progress seemed to be thriving.
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Frontmatter -- CULTURES IN DIALOGUE -- INTRODUCTION -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- I. BABYHOOD -- II. THE SCHOOL LIFE OF A TURKISH GIRL -- III. WHERE THE BROOK AND RIVER MEET -- IV. MARRIAGE -- V. HUSBANDS AND WIVES -- VI. DIVORCE -- VII. TURKISH HOUSEKEEPING -- VIII. HOW A TURKISH WOMAN AMUSES HERSELF -- IX. THE REAPER DEATH -- X. RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES -- XI. WORKERS AND BEGGARS -- XII. CHARACTERISTICS AND POSSIBILITIES

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Hester Donaldson Jenkins (1869-1941), a professor at the American College for Girls in Constantinople from 1900-1909, wrote enthusiastically about the Young Turks who seemed to promise new freedoms for Ottoman women. Jenkins uses her own observations of Constantinople, her students, and their families to construct an account of a "typical" Turkish Muslim woman's life cycle at this turning point in Ottoman history. She directs her comments toward childhood, education, marriage, polygamy, and divorce, in order to correct Western misapprehensions. In its confidence in the bright prospects of American influence and Ottoman reform, this book captures an optimistic moment in which social progress seemed to be thriving.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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