With the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923, improving the status of Turkish woman and creating a new republican woman image turned out to be pivotal issues. Women&amp / #8217 / s rights were considered as the indicators of the Turkish modernization, therefore were placed at the core of the agenda of the new republican regime. However, before the foundation of the Turkish Republic, there was a strong Ottoman-Turkish Feminism which came into existence in the late period of the Ottoman Empire and continued in the early years of the Turkish Republic. Although the Republican Reforms are considered as the unique source of equality between Turkish man and woman in the public sphere, the contributions of the Ottoman-Turkish Feminism on the progress of the status of the Ottoman-Turkish women should not be overlooked. The Ottoman-Turkish Feminism aimed at ameliorating and improving the living conditions of the Ottoman-Turkish women. Gaining equal political, economic and educational rights with men were the crux of the movement, as they were in the Western First Wave Feminism. However, struggling for the abolish of the female slavery, forming a national family, creating a new woman image were the other issues that were discussed widely during the Ottoman-Turkish Feminism. Women&amp / #8217 / s associations and women&amp / #8217 / s magazines were the two important vehicles of the Ottoman-Turkish Feminism in the struggle of gaining equal rights. Nezihe Muhittin was one of the leading activist woman who took part in the various activities conducted under the roof of the Ottoman-Turkish Feminism. Muhittin participated in the foundation of diverse women&amp / #8217 / s associations and she was an efficient social worker. Besides her activism, Muhittin was also one of the eminent literary figures of the time. She contributed to the formation of the new woman image as she wrote various short stories, articles and novellas all of which touch upon crucial issues about Ottoman-Turkish womanhood. In the light of this theoretical framework, this study focusses on the literary works of Nezihe Muhittin, analysing the reflections of the Ottoman-Turkish Feminism on the novellas written between the years 1911 and 1944. With the aim of detecting the implications of the Ottoman-Turkish Feminism on the literary works of Nezihe Muhittin, frequently referred themes are compared with the main tenets and discussions of the movement. By the same token, the good and evil woman characters in the novellas are compared with the appreciated and criticised woman types of the time. By doing so, it is aimed to demonstrate that Muhittin&amp / #8217 / s literary works can be considered as the products of the Ottoman-Turkish Feminism.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In Brazil, the area of Literature in the newspapers was the way found by many writers as a way to promote their written as receiving a salary. The show was one of the first literary manifestations in the communication vehicle newspaper. Then came the chronic and finally the female columns, in our case being studied, the female speaker Clarice Lispector. The author of A hora da estrela is known for her novels and short stories, but also wrote columns for newspapers of Rio de Janeiro, in the 50 and 60. Our dissertation consists of a reinterpretation of the female speaker Clarice Lispector, seeking not only the image of women represented in these pages, but recognize them as more a process of fictional creation of the author, in which mix recipes, advice, fashion, beauty confined to the feminine universe, published in books, Mail female (2006) and only for women (2008). The analysis and describe the image of woman, presents the historical image of his emancipation process and aims to find a moment when this woman abandons her domestic functions to return his gaze to general issues of society. / No Brasil, o espaço da Literatura nos jornais foi o caminho encontrado por muitos escritores como forma de divulgar seus escritos ou como de receber um salário. O folhetim foi uma das primeiras manifestações literárias, no veículo de comunicação, jornal. Depois vieram a crônica e, finalmente, as colunas femininas, no nosso caso em estudo, as colunas femininas de Clarice Lispector. A autora de A hora da estrela é conhecida por seus romances e contos, entretanto escreveu, também, colunas para jornais do Rio de Janeiro, nas décadas de 50 e 60. A nossa dissertação consiste em uma releitura das colunas femininas de Clarice Lispector, buscando não só a imagem da mulher representada em tais páginas, mas reconhecê-las como mais um processo de criação ficcional da autora, no qual se misturam receitas, conselhos, moda, beleza circunscritos ao universo feminino, publicadas nos livros, Correio Feminino (2006) e Só para mulheres (2008). A análise, além de descrever a imagem de mulher, apresenta a imagem histórica de seu processo de emancipação e almeja encontrar alguns instantes em que essa mulher abandona suas funções domésticas para voltar seu olhar para questões gerais da sociedade. / Mestre em Teoria Literária