Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Historiography of Late Ottoman Women -- Part One Women as Economic Actors: Class, Work, and Social Issues -- Chapter One Theater as Career for Ottoman Armenian Women, 1850 to 1910 -- Chapter Two Searching for Women's Agency in the Tobacco Workshops: Female Tobacco Workers of the Province of Selanik -- Chapter Three Working from Home: Division of Labor among Female Workers of Feshane in Late Nineteenth-Century Istanbul -- Part Two Education for Life: Schools, Asociations, and Curricula -- Chapter Four The Limits of Feminism in Muslim-Turkish Women Writers of the Armistice Period (1918-1923) -- Chapter Five Between Two Worlds: Education and Acculturation of Ottoman Jewish Women -- Chapter Six Girls' Institutes and the Rearrangement of the Public and the Private Spheres in Turkey -- Part Three Creating New Lives, Pushing the Boundaries: Female Ottoman Artists -- Chapter Seven Painting the Late Ottoman Woman: Portrait(s) of Mihri Müşfik Hanım -- Chapter Eight The New Woman in Erotic Popular Literature of 1920s Istanbul -- Part Four Womanhood in Print Culture -- Chapter Nine Enlightened Mothers and Scientific Housewives: Discussing Women's Social Roles in Eurydice (Evridiki) (1870-1873) -- Chapter Ten An Almanac for Ottoman Women: Notes on Ebüzziya Tevfik's Takvîmü'n-nisâ (1317/1899) -- Chapter Eleven Women's Representations in Ottoman Cartoons and the Satirical Press on the Eve of the Kemalist Reforms (1919-1924) -- Part Five Dilemmas of Nationalism: Debating Modernity, Identity, and Women's Agency -- Chapter Twelve From a Critique of the Orient to a Critique of Modernity: A Greek-Ottoman-American Writer, Demetra Vaka (1877-1946) -- Chapter Thirteen The 'Tomboy' and the 'Aristocrat': Nabawiyya Mûsâ and Malak Hifnî Nâsif, Pioneers of Egyptian Feminism.

Chapter Fourteen Hayriye Melek (Hunç), a Circassian Ottoman Writer between Feminism and Nationalism -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.