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    Control over life, control over body: Female suicide in early republican Turkey
    (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015) Maksudyan, Nazan
    This article examines the growing concern about female suicide in early republican Turkey. It shows that debates about modernisation intersected in various and complex ways with the scientific and more popular discourse about female suicide. Informed by the work of, amongst others, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood and Rosi Braidotti, it argues that the women who committed suicide exerted an agency which the new regime denied them and that it was largely for this reason that female suicide became such a public issue in Turkey in the 1920s and 1930s.
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    Domestic frontiers: Gender, reform, and American interventions in the Ottoman Balkans and the near east
    (Oxford Univ Press, 2014) Maksudyan, Nazan
    During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American Protestant missionaries attempted to export their religious beliefs and cultural ideals to the Ottoman Empire. Seeking to attract Orthodox Christians and even Muslims to their faith, they promoted the paradigm of the "Christian home" as the foundation of national progress. Yet the missionaries' efforts not only failed to win many converts but also produced some unexpected results. Drawing on a broad range of sources-Ottoman, Bulgarian, Russian, French, and English-Barbara Reeves-Ellington tracks the transnational history of this little-known episode of American cultural expansion. She shows how issues of gender and race influenced the missionaries' efforts as well as the complex responses of Ottoman subjects to American intrusions into their everyday lives. Women missionaries-married and single-employed the language of Christian domesticity and female moral authority to challenge the male-dominated hierarchy of missionary society and to forge bonds of feminist internationalism. At the same time, Orthodox Christians adapted the missionaries' ideology to their own purposes in developing a new strain of nationalism that undermined Ottoman efforts to stem growing sectarianism within their empire. By the beginning of the twentieth century, as some missionaries began to promote international understanding rather than Protestantism, they also paved the way for future expansion of American political and commercial interests. Copyright © 2013 by University of Massachusetts Press. All rights reserved.
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    Introduction
    (Berghahn Books, 2014) Maksudyan, Nazan
    It is well established that men and women have considerably varied experiences of the city relation to housing, use of transport, relative mobility, and spheres of employment.
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    Muslim midwives: The craft of birthing in the premodern middle east
    (Oxford Univ Press, 2016) Maksudyan, Nazan
    Avner Giladi’s panoramic study Muslim Midwives: The Craft of Birthing in the Premodern Middle East opens by setting forth the views of midwifery presented by two authors of sharply contrasting sensibilities and approaches, the fifteenth-century historian and proto-sociologist Ibn Khaldūn and the dyspeptic fourteenth-century religious polemicist Ibn al-Ḥājj. Ibn Khaldūn’s unusually extensive and respectful treatment of midwifery forms a chapter within the section of his Muqaddima devoted to professions and crafts. Acknowledging the professional expertise of midwives, he notes that they are “better acquainted than a skillful [male] physician” not only with obstetrics but with the medical treatment of infants (p. 3). Ibn al-Ḥājj, perhaps predictably, depicts midwives as ignorant folk practitioners whose customs are harmful to infants; he denounces in detail the non-sharʿī customs and ritual practices that they perform in conjunction with childbirth. Giladi acknowledges that these two authors may be describing midwives of different social strata or forms of training.
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    Orphans and destitute children in the late Ottoman empire
    (Syracuse University, 2014) Maksudyan, Nazan
    History books often weave tales of rising and falling empires, royal dynasties, and wars among powerful nations. Here, Maksudyan succeeds in making those who are farthest removed from power the lead actors in this history. Focusing on orphans and destitute youth of the late Ottoman Empire, the author gives voice to those children who have long been neglected. Their experiences and perspectives shed new light on many significant developments of the late Ottoman period, providing an alternative narrative that recognizes children as historical agents. Maksudyan takes the reader from the intimate world of infant foundlings to the larger international context of missionary orphanages, all while focusing on Ottoman modernization, urbanization, citizenship, and the maintenance of order and security. Drawing upon archival records, she explores the ways in which the treatment of orphans intersected with welfare, labor, and state building in the Empire. Throughout the book, Maksudyan does not lose sight of her lead actors, and the influence of the children is always present if we simply listen and notice carefully as Maksudyan so convincingly argues. © 2014 by Syracuse University Press.
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    Preface: Kaffee und kuchen
    (Berghahn Books, 2014) Maksudyan, Nazan
    Saturday afternoon. A very elegant old little cafe on Starowislna Street. Small square tables, dark colored curtains on the windows, and the smell of burned sugar and cotton candy. Two wery well dressed women in their seventies enter through the door proudly taking of their gracefull little hats and leather gloves.
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    Prisons in the late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of modernity
    (Cambridge Univ Press, 2015) Maksudyan, Nazan
    In 1851 and again in 1918–19 British officials assigned to the Ottoman Empire conducted extensive inspections of the empire’s prisons and drew up detailed reports of what they found. Notwithstanding their imperialist and orientalist undertones, these reports describe Ottoman prisons as being in a serious state of disrepair.1 Stratford Canning, the famous British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, commissioned the 1851 inspections with the intent to assist the Ottomans in reforming their criminal justice system. He ordered British Foreign Office representatives stationed throughout the empire to undertake a comprehensive inspection of prisons in order to ascertain their deficiencies and to report back to him. Canning justified prison improvement and inspection according to civilisational principles: But in the present advanced state of human knowledge and public opinion no government which respects itself and claims a position among civilised communities can shut its eyes to the abuses which prevail. Or to the horrors which past ages may have left in that part of its administration which separate the repression of crime and the personal constraint of the guilty or the accused.2
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    Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey
    (Cambridge Univ Press, 2016) Maksudyan, Nazan
    [No abstract available]
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    Self, family, and society Individual and communal reflections on the Armenian genocide
    (Van Leer Jerusalem Inst, 2015) Maksudyan, Nazan
    The centennial year of the Armenian Genocide has understandably led to the publication of a great many books on the topic. In underlining this fact, I do not mean to say that this was a sudden development. On the contrary, scholarly research on, and general interest in, the history of the Armenian Genocide, and more broadly the history of the Armenians in the late Ottoman period, have been steadily increasing over the past decades and have led to the production of the most salient works on the subject.1 Although most scholars focus on the history of the Armenian Genocide, there is also growing interest both in different aspects of Armenian life prior to the genocide and in the lives of immigrant Armenian communities around the world. In addition to scholarly writing, there is a very large body of nonacademic or quasi-academic works on the subject, which will be the main concern of this review essay.
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    "This time women as well got involved in politics!": Nineteenth century Ottoman women's organizations and political agency
    (Berghahn Books, 2014) Maksudyan, Nazan
    In March 1892, Jewish ladies of Péra and Galata founded a new charitable society to relieve the pains of poor women and children who emigrated from Russia and Corfu and who were in distress in Istanbul. The misfortunes of many poor Jewish families of different quarters of the city also attracted their attention. By the same token, in 1904 Bulgarian women’s organizations were applying to the Consulates of the Great Powers to secure the release of a few Bulgarian women who were arrested by the Ottoman authorities due to their participation in the Ilinden Uprising of 1903. Again with objectives of helping other women in need, the Greek Women’s Society in Péra applied to the government in 1907, requesting authorization for their already functioning maternity clinic, opened to serve young, poor, and unwed women. Likewise, in 1909 Armenian intellectual and elite women of Istanbul reorganized the activities of their charitable societies in order to relieve the pains of massacre-stricken orphans and widows in the Adana district.
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    Women and the city, women in the city: A gendered perspective on Ottoman urban history
    (Berghahn Books, 2014) Maksudyan, Nazan
    ON BARAK, Times of Tamaddun: Gender, Urbanity, and Temporality in Colonial Egypt. SEVGI ADAK, Women in the Post-Ottoman Public Sphere: Anti-Veiling Campaigns and the Gendered Reshaping of Urban Space in Early Republican Turkey. ULRIKE FREITAG, Playing with Gender: The Carnival of al-Qays in Jeddah. VAHÉ TACHJIAN, Mixed Marriage, Prostitution, Survival: Reintegrating Armenian Women into Post-Ottoman Cities. NAZAN MAKSUDYAN, “This Time Women as Well Got Involved in Politics!”: Nineteenth Century Ottoman Women’s Organizations and Political Agency. NORA LAFI, Early Republican Turkish Orientalism? The Erotic Picture of an Algerian Woman and the Notion of Beauty between the “West” and the “Orient.” CHRISTOPH HERZOG, The Urban Experience in Women’s Memoirs: Mediha Kayra’s World War I Notebook.