In the past few days, I attended Subject-Based Discussion: “Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Hafıza: Zabel Yesayan’dan Sevgi Soysal’a Hatırladıklarımız & Unuttuklarımız” by Ayşe Gül Altınay. Firstly, we brainstormed about the place of women in society: When they first studied at a university , women’s movement in Ottoman Empire, first political party that was founded by women etc. Especially, Altınay emphasise that the process of gaining women’s rights is shown like women’s rights were given to them without women’s demand but just the contrary, they have been struggling to gain their rights since 1910 and women’s rights were gained by women.
Altınay read some quotations from Zabel Yesayan’s -First Ottoman-Armenian socialist-feminist pacifist female writer- and Sevgi Soysal’s writings. In this way, she highlighted women’s problems and their perspective.
There are some recomeneded books about women and their movements by Altınay:
Eşitsiz Kız Kardeşlik/ASLI DAVAZ
Bir Adalet Feryadı Osmanlı’dan Türkiye’ye Beş Ermeni Feminist Yazar / Aras Yayıncılık
Sürgündeki Ruhum/ ZABEL YESEYAN
Yıldırım Bölge Kadınlar Koğuşu/SEVGI SOYSAL
There are some benefical links, if you interest:
Gender and Memory tour Beyoglu in the framework of the workshop “Mobilizing Memory for Action” https://vimeo.com/107553682
http://www.istanbulkadinmuzesi.org/
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