Published for thirteen years (1895-1908), Hanımlara Mahsûs Gazete (Newspaper for Ladies), with its articles and news about education, family, household, household management, child-rearing, hygiene, health, beauty, embroidery, leisure and fashion is a precious source reflecting not only the ideal everyday life of an ideal Ottoman woman of the upper and middle classes of Ottoman society in an era of modernization and westernization but also Sultan Abdülhamid II's oppressive censorship policies as imposed on the press.
In this sense, the main argument of this book examines the characteristics of an urban, upper and middle class “ideal” Ottoman Muslim woman or womanhood and her supposed everyday life during the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II as portrayed by the articles in Hanımlara Mahsûs Gazete.
İçindekiler
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW
A) Historical Process
a) FromTanzîmâtto the Republican Era:"The Woman Question"
b) The Efects of the Press and Ottoman Women's Magazines & Newspapers
c) FromTanzîmâtto the Second Constitunional Priod: Ottoman Women's Newspapers and Magazines
d) Ottoman Women in the Second Constitutional Period
e) Women Associations
e) Women's Magazines and Newspapers in the Second Constitutional Period
B) Conclusion
CHAPTER 3: THE "IDEAL" FOR OTTOMAN MUSLIM WOMEN:
HANIMLARA MAHSÛS GAZETE
A) As Women's Newspaper:Hanımlara Mahsûs Gazete
B) The Characteristics ofHanımlara Mahsûs Gazete
a) Period
b) Price
c) Sub-titles
d) Pages
e) Supplements
f) Administration
g) Authors
i) Female Authors
I. Fatma Aliye
II. Emine Semiye
III. Nigâr bint-i Osman
IV. Fatma Makbûle
ii) Other Prominent Women Writers
iii) Male Authors
I. Ahmet Midhat
II. Ahmet Rasim
III. Ziya Şakir
h) The Readers ofHanımlara Mahsûs Gazete
C) Content
a) Writings About the Sultan, Medals, Formal Notifications, Friday Ceremonies
I. Medals of Compassion (Şevkât Nişânları)
II. Friday Ceremonies
III. Official Notifications
IV. Politics
V.İane Komisyonları(Commissions for Donation) and Charitable Works
b) Articles of Thought, Personal Letters
c) Literature
I. Serialized (Tefrîka) Stories
II. Poetry
III. A Literature Critic
IV. Literature: For What and For Whom?
d) Entertainment: Questions, Jokes, Puzzles and Music
