Travelling Theory and Women's Movements in Turkey: Imagining Europe

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
1 Feminist Travelling Theories and Imaginary Geographies
	1.1 Travelling Theory and Women’s Rights Demands
	1.2 Imagination of Europe in the Ottoman Women’s Rights Demands
	1.3 Overview of this Book
2 Gender History, Feminist Genealogy and the Archival Turn
	2.1 Feminist Genealogy: Untangling the past in Following Travelling of Women’s Movements
	2.2 Gender History: The Relationality between ‘Herstory’ and ‘Poststructuralist Feminist’ Approaches
		2.2.1 Herstory and Poststructuralist Feminist Approaches to History
		2.2.2 Approaching Herstory Research about Turkey
	2.3 The ‘Archival Turn’ and Feminist Research: Turns, Terms and Archival Fetishes
	2.4 Finding Ottoman Women, Returning to KD: Entanglements of the Archive
		2.4.1 Key Issues about the KD Magazine
		2.4.2 My Relationship with the Ottoman Muslim-Turkish Women and Europe
	2.5 Conclusion
3 ‘The Sick Man of Europe’: The Contexts Women’s Movements Travel
	3.1 ‘Waves’ and ‘Feminism’ in ‘Non-Western’ Contexts
	3.2 Political Atmosphere During Modernisation and Nationalism
		3.2.1 Modernisation and Nationalism in ‘Non-Western’ Problematisations
		3.2.2 Modernisation in Law and Parliament: The Young Turks and the ‘Woman Question’
		3.2.3 Intellectual Perspectives on Turkish and Muslim Womanhoods
		3.2.4 Kemalism: A Form of Modernism
	3.3 Ottoman Muslim-Turkish Women’s Movements and Magazines
	3.4 Conclusion
4 Negotiations in Discourses on ‘Europe’: The Production of Occidentalism
	4.1 Occidentalism: Conceptualising Imagination of Europe
	4.2 For Progress of Europe: Binaries, Demarcations and Lacks
		4.2.1 New Directions for Truth and Knowledge: To Europe
		4.2.2 ‘Knowledgeable European Women’ and ‘Superstitious Ottoman Women’: Unpacking Binaries in Women’s Movements
		4.2.3 What Europe has and the Ottoman Empire has Not: ‘Not there Yet’
	4.3 Against Threat of Europe: Economy and Culture
		4.3.1 ‘Europe in the Ottoman Bread’: Europe as an Economic Threat
		4.3.2 ‘Smell like the Occident’: Europe as a Cultural Threat
	4.4 To whom Nationalist Ideas Talk To: A Debate on Several Imaginations of Europe and the Nation
	4.5 Ambiguous Solidarities: European Women and Ottoman Men
	4.6 Conclusion
5 Clothing as Women’s Rights: Protecting the Sexual Purity of Women (and Nation) from Europe
	5.1 Iffet: The Danger of ‘Crossing the Line’
		5.1.1 Muslim Femininities
		5.1.2 Modernisation as a Threat to Women’s iffet and the Nation’s Namus
	5.2 Wearing the Nation for Women’s Rights
	5.3 Negotiation of Iffet though Occidentalism in the Discussions of National Clothing
	5.4 Being the Other of Europe and Producing ‘Internal’ Others
		5.4.1 Rural Ottoman Women: Urban Women’s Demarcations
		5.4.2 Non-Muslim Ottoman Women: Iffet in Question
	5.5 Conclusion
6 ‘Mood of Commitment’: Inhabiting Motherhood Positions
	6.1 ‘Mood of Commitment’ in Occidentalism
	6.2 Motherhood and Commitment
		6.2.1 Who is Women’s Rights For? Opening Spaces for women’s Rights
		6.2.2 Potential Complicities: ‘Mothers of the Nation’ and its Exclusions
	6.3 Several Motherhoods and their Subjectivities
		6.3.1 ‘Mourning Mothers’ for their Children
		6.3.2 Mothers as the ‘Ruler’ of the House
		6.3.3 Mothers Worried about their Daughter’s Marriages
	6.4 Conclusion
Conclusion: Europe is not About Europe
	7.1 Some Reflections: Methodological Highlights
		7.1.1 Feminist Dilemmas in Producing Research
		7.1.2 ‘Grandmothers’ Under Question
	7.2 Thinking of Complexity of the Local in Travelling of Women’s rights Demands
Index