SavedAdd your journal

Journals / A|Z ITU Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi / 2021 / Cilt: 18 - Sayı: 3

Outside the house but not in the city: Promenades in Istanbul as negotiated public spaces for women in 19th-century Ottoman novels

Ela ÇİL
Ayşe Nur ŞENEL-FİDANGENÇ
Pages
703–717
Publication Date
2022-10-12
DOI
—
🏛️Bibliographic metadata and full text access for this article are provided via DergiPark.
DergiPark Record ↗
✨

AI Summary & Key Takeaways

AI Insight
⚡ TL;DR(Too Long; Didn't Read)

And, on the other level, they want to keep Muslim women away from Pera, the Westernized and cosmopolitan district, in Istanbul.

📌 3 Key Takeaways

🎯
Objective & Hypothesis:Drawing on from feminist literary theory, this article analyses the first Ottoman novels working within and consolidating the patriarchal discourse published in the rampant modernization period in the second half of 19th century, which is also named the Tanzimat (Reorganization) era of the Ottoman Empire.
📊
Key Findings & Data:Having Istanbul as their settings, the discourse of the novels tackle with delineating the limits to the social and cultural transformations, which the novels’ writers perceive to be the direct result of Western influence.
💡
Conclusion & Impact:And, on the other level, they want to keep Muslim women away from Pera, the Westernized and cosmopolitan district, in Istanbul.
🔬Design:Research Article
📍Scope:Comprehensive Sample
⚙️Variables:Domain Parameters

Abstract

Drawing on from feminist literary theory, this article analyses the first Ottoman novels working within and consolidating the patriarchal discourse published in the rampant modernization period in the second half of 19th century, which is also named the Tanzimat (Reorganization) era of the Ottoman Empire. Having Istanbul as their settings, the discourse of the novels tackle with delineating the limits to the social and cultural transformations, which the novels’ writers perceive to be the direct result of Western influence. The novels have a didactic style aimed for guiding their readers to shield certain values, which they think hold the core of Ottoman identity, from the changes. We argue that the discourse of the novels manifest ambivalence regarding the inevitable presence of women outside the house and negotiate with their readers on the place and practices of publicness. No matter how popular and crowded they had then become, the promenades, were where the male writers aimed to confine women in their outings. At one level, their emphasis on the promenades is related with the conceptualization of nature as a safe space in the context of a modernizing city. And, on the other level, they want to keep Muslim women away from Pera, the Westernized and cosmopolitan district, in Istanbul.

🔖

Cite This Article

ÇİL, E., ŞENEL-FİDANGENÇ, A. N. (2022). Outside the house but not in the city: Promenades in Istanbul as negotiated public spaces for women in 19th-century Ottoman novels. A|Z ITU Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, Cilt: 18 - Sayı: 3, 703–717. https://ajindex.com/articles/426335

📄 Full Text PDF Viewer

📄

PDF görüntüleyici hazırlanıyor...

References (17)

  1. Abdülaziz Bey (2002).
  2. Osmanlı Adet, Merasim ve Tabirleri (K. Arısan & D.A. Günay, Eds.). İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları.
  3. Ahmet Mithat Efendi (2016). Felatun Bey ile Rakım Efendi. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. (Original work published 1875) Ahmet Mithat Efendi (2007). Henüz 17 Yaşında. Ankara: Elips Kitap. (Original work published 1880) Ahmet Mithat Efendi (2010). Dürdane Hanım. İstanbul: Paraf Yayınları. (Original work published 1882) Ahmet Mithat Efendi (2000). Vah!. Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları. (Original work published 1882) Ahmet Mithat Efendi (2001).
  4. Çingene. Letaif-I Rivayat, İstanbul: Çağrı Yayınları. (Original work published 1887) Akın, N. (1998). 19. Yüzyılın İkinci Yarısında Galata ve Pera. Istanbul: Literatür Yayınları.
  5. Akkach, S. (2010)
  6. Leisure Gardens, Secular Habits: The Culture of Recreation in Ottoman Damascus. METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture 27(1), 67-80.
  7. Aksan, V., & Goffman, D. (2007). Situating the early Modern Ottoman World. In V. Aksan, & D. Goffman (Eds.), The Early Modern Ottomans, Remapping The Empire (pp.1-12). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  8. Alkan, M. Ö. (1990, Yaz). Tanzimattan Sonra Kadının Hukusal Statüsü. Toplum ve Bilim 50, 85-95.
  9. Ambros, G. (2016).
  10. Frivolity and Flirtation, In E. Boyar, & K. Fleet (Eds.), Ottoman Women in Public Space (pp.150-186). Leiden: Brill. Anderson, B. (1999). Imagined Communities. New York: Verso. Balıkhane Nazırı Ali Riza Bey (2017). Eski Zamanlarda İstanbul Hayatı (A. Ş. Çoruk, Ed.). İstanbul: Kitabevi Yayınları.
  11. Basiretçi Ali Efendi (2001). İstanbul Mektupları (N. Sağlam, Ed.). İstanbul: Kitabevi. Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi. Hatt-ı Hümayûn. 300/17864 Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi. Hatt-ı Hümayûn. 319/18712 Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi. Hatt-ı Hümayûn. 493/24223 Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşivi. Sadaret Divân Kalemi.1266/64 Başlı, Ş. (2010). Osmanlı Romanının İmkanları Üzerine. İstanbul:
  12. İletişim Yayınları.
  13. Berman, M. (1998). All That Is Solid Melts Into Air. New York: Penguin Books. Boyar, E., & Fleet, K. (2010). A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  14. Cerasi, M. (1985) Open Space Water and Trees in Ottoman Urban Culture in the 18th-19th Centuries. Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre 2, 36-49.
  15. Cixous, H., & Clement, C. (1986). The Newly Born Woman. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  16. Cranz, G. (1982). The Politics of Park Design. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  17. Çakır, S. (2016). Osmanlı Kadın Hareketi. İstanbul: Met