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Comparative and Integrative History in Ottoman and Turkish Women’s and Gender Studies

Comparative and Integrative History in Ottoman and Turkish Women’s and Gender Studies Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/17/3/492/1169819/492torunoglu.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 THIRD S PACE Roundtable: Gende r ed Tra n snationalisms in the M idd l e E as t a nd North Africa Comparative and Integrative History in Ottoman and Turkish Women’s and Gender Studies GÜL Ş AH Ş ENK O L T OR UNO Ğ LU omen’s and gender history began to move in a comparative direction during W the late 1990s, opening up new possibilities in scholarship about Western and non-Western contexts alike. Sonya Michel (1998: 189) asked, “Why the comparative turn, and why now?” According to Michel, “The proliferation of historical knowl- edge about women and gender invites broad cross-cultural and transhistorical comparisons” (190) and a “collective commitmenttofighting national parochialism” (Rupp 2008: 33; see also Offen 2010). However, this is not the only reason. The field of women’s and gender history is inherently comparative and itself invites, gener- ates, and even requires a comparative framework to understand when,where, under what conditions, and in which forms patriarchy exists, persists, or weakens. This is especially true for Middle Eastern and North African contexts, where scholar- ship on gender is often directly pertinent to women’s rights activism (Booth http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Duke University Press

Comparative and Integrative History in Ottoman and Turkish Women’s and Gender Studies

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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/17/3/492/1169819/492torunoglu.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 THIRD S PACE Roundtable: Gende r ed Tra n snationalisms in the M idd l e E as t a nd North Africa Comparative and Integrative History in Ottoman and Turkish Women’s and Gender Studies GÜL Ş AH Ş ENK O L T OR UNO Ğ LU omen’s and gender history began to move in a comparative direction during W the late 1990s, opening up new possibilities in scholarship about Western and non-Western contexts alike. Sonya Michel (1998: 189) asked, “Why the comparative turn, and why now?” According to Michel, “The proliferation of historical knowl- edge about women and gender invites broad cross-cultural and transhistorical comparisons” (190) and a “collective commitmenttofighting national parochialism” (Rupp 2008: 33; see also Offen 2010). However, this is not the only reason. The field of women’s and gender history is inherently comparative and itself invites, gener- ates, and even requires a comparative framework to understand when,where, under what conditions, and in which forms patriarchy exists, persists, or weakens. This is especially true for Middle Eastern and North African contexts, where scholar- ship on gender is often directly pertinent to women’s rights activism (Booth

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    Bloch, Marc Anderson, J. E.
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    Booth, Marilyn
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    Findley, Carter Vaughn
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    Fletcher, Joseph F.
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    Hanley, Will Maas, Willem
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    Haupt, Heinz-Gerhard
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    Hill, Alette Olin Hill, Boyd H.
  • Between Comparison and Transfers and What Now? A French-German Debate
    Kaelble, Hartmut Haupt and Jürgen Kocka, Heinz-Gerhard
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    Michel, Sonya
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    Offen, Karen
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    Reimer, Michael J.
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    Sewell, William H.
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    Shih, Shu-Mei
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    Ther, Philipp
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