Modernization, Public Space and Women in the Ottoman Empire: Analyzing Social Change through “Hanımlara Mahsûs Gazete ” Osmanlı’da Modernleşme, Kamusal Alan ve Kadın: Toplumsal Değişimi “Hanımlara Mahsûs Gazete”yle Okumak

Güler M., Çelik H.

Bilig, cilt.2023, sa.107, ss.127-160, 2023 (SSCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 2023 Sayı: 107
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.12995/bilig.10705
  • Dergi Adı: Bilig
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, Index Islamicus, Linguistic Bibliography, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Political Science Complete, Sociological abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.127-160
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Hanımlara Mahsûs Gazete, modernization, Ottoman women, public space, Reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II, social change
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The subject of this article is to evaluate the social change and the presence of Ottoman women in the public space during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II, which witnessed a comprehensive modernization. The relationship between women and the public space can be used as an indicator of modernization in 19th century Ottoman society. Towards the end of the 19th century, the press, which cross-cut different classes, functioned as a matrix that included various forms of the public space such as fashion-production-consumption styles, education, and communication. In this study, as an interface for analysing this matrix, illustrations, articles, advertisements/announcements in 612 issues of Hanımlara Mahsûs Gazete, the longest circulation women’s magazine of the period, are considered as effective tools that provide evidence of social transformation and women’s becoming visible active participants in the public space. The socio-cultural and economic outlook of the period was analysed by revealing the distribution of 4392 data obtained from the magazine according to categories and years. As a result of the study, it was determined that the developing press and advertising changed the public space, social structure and lifestyle, and that Ottoman women before 1908 were active participants in the public space as the creators of their own modernity.