Abstract
Italian travel literature includes a number of important accounts of female life in what is now the Turkish Republic. A central position in these texts is taken by observations on the women's revolution implemented by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, that pushed the position of women to the most advanced in Europe. But travel accounts in the Tanzimat period evidence how the Kemalist revolution was anticipated by important changes in Ottoman society. The Italian revolutionary and proto-feminist aristocrat Cristina di Belgioioso had described Anatolian women with new interest in the wake of the 1848 revolts and was rather unique in taking the chance to describe their life and relations with the dominant sex.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of Papers of International Conference on Knowledge and Politics in Gender and Women’s Studies 2015 |
| Place of Publication | Ankara |
| Publisher | Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey |
| Pages | 895-903 |
| Edition | 2016 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | ISBN: 978-975-429-353-1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |