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Armenian Feminism in Post-Genocide Turkey
Lerna Ekmekcioglu
How Armenian women sought to transform their role in society after 1915.
Armenian Feminism in Post-Genocide Turkey
Dr. Lerna Ekmekçioğlu shines a light on the history of Armenian feminism in the years following the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey. In the complicated years that followed the existential crisis of 1915, Armenian feminists fought to advance the political, civil, and educational rights of women while also trying to aid and support a national agenda that was essential to the survival of the Armenian community in Turkey.
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