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[New York University’s Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative] Panel: Women, Agency and Patronage in the Ottoman Empire
May 21, 2021 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm EDT
This panel will present a diverse and nuanced set of studies that seek to expand, question, and resituate our understandings of gender and women’s agency in the Ottoman Empire.
Gamze Yavuzer examines 17th-century legal cases of Muslim and non-Muslim Ottoman women abandoned by their husbands to question the notion of the advantageousness of the Sharia courts vis-à-vis the non-Muslim community courts for women; Betül Başaran explores the practice of marriages between Ottoman women and foreigners (kebin) to introduce new ways of conceptualizing women’s agency in the empire; Susanna Ferguson investigates gender segregation in schooling and the gendered practice of moral cultivation and proper raising of children (tarbiya) as a way to understand how civilizational labor offered women new opportunities to claim authority in the late Ottoman Arab East; and Müge Özbek analyzes post-Ottoman memoirs and travelogues of women accompanying their male relatives throughout the Arab provinces to examine how female mobility impacted the workings of the Empire and its colonial projects. Our commentator, Michael Ferguson, will draw on each of these presentations to speak about some of the relevant themes around gender, agency, and patronage. The panel will be followed by a 30-minute Q&A session.
Date/Time: Friday, May 21, 12:30-2:00pm EDT.
To attend the event, please use this Zoom registration link.
Contact information: abb12@nyu.edu