The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the complex and multidimensional relationship of women to the idea of nations and
nationalism. In particular, it seeks answers to the following questions: What did nationalism mean to women? How did they imagine the nation?
How did they respond to the gendered nationalist discourses? How did they exercise their agency as social actors in the nation building
project? With an inquiry of such questions, this study challenges the perception of the “woman question” as “a struggle in which male
protagonists engaged each other while women remained surprisingly passive onlookers.” This study rather explores the dialectical relationship
between woman-as-objects, who have been discussed and portrayed as a static, homogenous form within nationalist discourses, and
woman-as-subjects who actively participated in constructing and/or contesting nationalist discourses while tracing the continuities and
discontinues in nationalist discourse. In other words, this study lets female intellectuals speak in their own terms and in their historical
contexts. In order to do so, this study concentrates on two pioneer female intellectuals who were actively involved in constructing national
identity in the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic: Halide Edib [Adıvar] (1884-1964), a novelist, an activist, and an ardent
nationalist who also took part in the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923), and Ayşe Afet [İnan] (1908-1985), one of the adopted daughters
of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first female historian of the Turkish Republic, and the ideologue of Kemalist master narrative. / A Dissertation submitted to the Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Fall Semester 2017. / November 16, 2017. / Includes bibliographical references. / Peter Garretson, Professor Directing Dissertation; David F. Johnson, University Representative; Will
Hanley, Committee Member; François Dupuigrenet, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_605017 |
| Contributors | Sonmez Poyraz, Sebahat (author), Garretson, Peter P. (professor directing dissertation), Johnson, David F. (David Frame), 1956- (university representative), Hanley, Will, 1974- (committee member), Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, François, 1953- (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Arts and Sciences (degree granting college), Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities (degree granting departmentdgg) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text, doctoral thesis |
| Format | 1 online resource (220 pages), computer, application/pdf |
| Coverage | Middle East |
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