The formation of a feminist consciousness and memory in Turkey coincided with a historical period in which both social movements and academic studies proliferated. Towards the end of the 1980s, the increasing number of women's organisations and publications began to impact upon both the feminist movement and academic research in the area of women's studies. This, combined with the expansion of the civil societal realm, has resulted in many topics and issues related to women becoming part of the public discussion, thereby contributing to the development of a new feminist consciousness. This article discusses the impact of the work in the field of women's history and the ensuing discovery of an Ottoman feminism on the formation of such a feminist consciousness and memory in Turkey.
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Feminism and Feminist History-Writing in Turkey
The Discovery of Ottoman Feminism
Serpil Çakır
History from Down Under
E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and Australia
Ann Curthoys
E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class was influential in Australia as it was throughout the Anglophone world. The focus of interest changed over time, starting with the fate of those of The Making's radical protesters who were transported to the Australian colonies, and then focusing on questions of class formation and the relationship between agency and structure. The peak of influence was in the 1980s, especially in the rising field of social history, and a little later in the burgeoning field of cultural history. Yet The Making's own limitations on questions of gender, race, and colonialism meant that feminist and indigenous histories, which were transforming the discipline, engaged with it only indirectly. In recent years, as the turn to transnational, imperial, and Indigenous histories has taken hold, Thompson's influence has somewhat declined.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 19–39 (21 total)
Sakai Magara
Activist Girl of Early Twentieth Century Japan
Barbara Hartley
Abstract
In this article, I profile the activism of 18-year-old Sakai Magara (1903–1985). I focus in particular on her role in the Sekirankai (Red Wave Society), which was a short-lived women's political organization formed in April 1921 and aligned directly with socialist and anti-capitalist worker issues. My discussion draws on three principal sources: contemporaneous accounts of the Society; writings by women with whom Magara collaborated; and the words of Magara herself. I pay attention to Magara's contribution to Sekirankai, the influences on the development of her activism, and the barriers to political participation by girls and women in Japan.
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 103–118 (16 total)
From Femicide to Feminicidio
Latin American Contributions to Feminist Conceptual History
Camila Ordorica
ignited a feminist paradigm shift on the continent. I argue that this shift was led by f/f concepts then and continues now. According to leading trends in the historiography on global women's movements, the study of national feminist histories is
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 45–61 (17 total)
A Girl Activist Inventory
Claudia Mitchell
editors of this special issue, Catherine Vanner and Anuradha Dugal and the wide range of superb contributors, I can point confidently to girls’ activism as a burgeoning area of study in contemporary feminism rooted in feminist history. Then, just as this
About Şirin Tekeli
Sercan Çınar and Francisca de Haan
[Women and men in 75 years], ed. Ayşe Berktay (Istanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 1998), 337–347, here 337. 8 Serpil Çakır, “Feminism and Feminist History-Writing in Turkey: The Discovery of Ottoman Feminism,” Aspasia 1 (2007): 61–83, here 63.
Editor's Introduction
Sharon A. Kowalsky
European women, including Communist women, into the broader narrative of European women's and feminist history. Her groundbreaking studies of international women's organizations and her efforts to document through biography the work of women activists have
Book Reviews
Randall Newnham, Paul Carls, Kate R. Stanton, Michelangelo Vercesi, Randall Newnham, and Carol Hager
, 1968–2002 has become a pillar for those studying German feminist history. Chapter One traces the emergence of the West German women's movement from the 1968 student movement and its growth through the 1970s. It analyses how the fight to decriminalize
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2024
- Article Type:
- Book Review
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- 109–125 (17 total)
On the Politics of Feminist Knowledge Production in the Post-Yugoslav Space
Chiara Bonfiglioli
(hardback), ISBN 978-1-137-46238-1. The field of gender, women’s, and feminist history in Southeastern Europe is undoubtedly a very lively one, as demonstrated by these two recent edited volumes, whose main insights, approaches, and limits I will only be
Who Is Afraid of Feminist Thought?
In Memoriam: Hana Havelková (18 September 1949–31 October 2020)
Veřa Sokolová and Libora Oates-Indruchová
and for the Representation of Women in Politics. For many years, she served as the chairwoman of the Czech Helsinki Committee and a co-editor of L'Homme: Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft/European Journal of Feminist