The 'new Armenian woman': Armenian women's writing in the Ottoman Empire, 1880--1915
Armenian feminist discourse demonstrates a concern with the idea of the rights of the individual which is a product of the ideology of the French Revolution of 1789. Armenian intellectuals, male and female, applied these concepts to their position as a minority within the despotic Ottoman state but women intellectuals took these ideas farther and applied them to the status of the Armenian woman. Armenian feminists used the concepts of fraternity, equality and liberty to argue for women's rights. Their engagement with European ideology should not obscure the fact, however, that these authors were particularly concerned with the circumstances of the Armenian community within the Ottoman Empire
Thesis, Dissertation, English, [2000]
[University of Toronto (Canada)], [2000]