Efthymia Kanner

Lecturer

canner[at]turkmas.uoa[dot]gr

3 hours per week

Course Objectives

Students completing the course should be able to:

• Perceive gender as a concept linked to every aspect of the social field -i.e. perceive the gendered character of citizenship, of the labour market, of educational systems and the gendered notions of the family.

• Understand the political character of gender in late Ottoman and Turkish History/understand the crucial role of gender in the Ottoman and Turkish modernisation projects.

• Understand the different meanings of the political transformations undertaken within the above projects for men and women and, of course, for the various groups within each sex.

• Assess the social impact of the Turkish modernising project as far as gender relations are concerned.

Course Structure

The course is structured around the following axes:

• Relationship between gender and body politics as this is perceived and expressed in the crucial moments of history of the late Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic.

• Gender social demands from the Ottoman Reform Era to the contemporary Turkey.

• Trans-cultural encounters and gender pattern construction (urban/rural gender pattern encounters, inter-religious relations and gender pattern shaping).

• Gender hierarchies in the public and private sphere (citizenship, labour market, education, family) and gendered construction of these fields.

• Gender as a metaphor of secularism/ Islamism.

These topics are approached through historical sources and documents presenting the current situation in Turkey. They are also theoretically contextualised. The course takes the form of a dialogue based on sources and bibliography available in the e-class platform.

Assessment

Assessment is effected: (a) through a written assignment of 2.000 words (30% of the overall grade) on topics related to the course. A list of recommended titles is provided. Students are encouraged to present a draft of their assignment during the last session for comments by the teacher and the students; (b) through the final written exams (70% of the overall grade).

Required Readings

Frangoudaki, Anna- Keyder, Çağlar (ed.), 2007, Ways to Modernity in Greece and Turkey. Encounters with Europe, 1850-1959, I.B. Tauris, London [Greek Edition, Athens 2008, Alexandria Publishers].

Kanner, Efi, 2012, Έμφυλες κοινωνικές διεκδικήσεις από την Οθωμανική αυτοκρατορία στην Ελλάδα και την Τουρκία. Ο κόσμος μιας Ελληνίδας χριστιανής δασκάλας, [Gender Social Demands from the Ottoman Empire to Greece and Turkey. The World of a Greek Christian School Teacher], (in Greek), Papazisis Publishers, Athens.

Shankland David, 1999, Islam and Society in Turkey, The Eothen Press, Huntingdon [Greek Edition, Athens 2003, Kritiki Publishers].

Tsibiridou Fotini (ed)., 2006, Μουσουλμάνες της Ανατολής. Αναπαραστάσεις, πολιτισμικές σημασίες και πολιτικές, [Moslem Women in the Middle East. Representations, Cultural Significations and Politics] (in Greek), Kritiki Publishers, Athens.

Bibliography

Keyder, Çağlar – Φραγκουδάκη, Άννα (επιμ.), Ελλάδα και Τουρκία. Πορείες εκσυγχρονισμού. Οι αμφίσημες σχέσεις τους με την Ευρώπη, 1850-1950, μτφρ., Κώστας Κουρεμένος, Αλεξάνδρεια, Αθήνα 2008.

Κάννερ, Έφη, Έμφυλες κοινωνικές διεκδικήσεις από την Οθωμανική αυτοκρατορία στην Ελλάδα και την Τουρκία. Ο κόσμος μιας Ελληνίδας χριστιανής δασκάλας, Παπαζήσης, Αθήνα 2011.

Shankland, David, Ισλάμ και κοινωνία στην Τουρκία, μτφρ. Κατερίνα Κιτίδη, επιμέλεια- πρόλογος Φωτεινή Τσιμπιρίδου, εκδ. Κριτική, Αθήνα 2003.

Τσιμπιρίδου, Φωτεινή (επιμ.), Μουσουλμάνες της Ανατολής. Αναπαραστάσεις, πολιτισμικές σημασίες και πολιτικές, Εκδ. Κριτική, Αθήνα 2006.