Includes bibliographical references and index List of figures ; Preface. Kaffee und Kuchen ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction. A gendered perspective to Ottoman urban history ; Women and reorganization of urban life ; Times of tamaddun : gender, urbanity, and temporality in colonial Egypt / On Barak Includes bibliographical references and index Women in the post-Ottoman public sphere : anti-veiling campaigns and the gendered reshaping of urban space in early republican Turkey / Sevgi Adak Male spaces, female spaces? : limits of and breaches in the gendered order of the city ; Playing with gender : the carnival of al-qays in Jeddah / Ulrike Freitag Mixed marriage, prostitution, survival : reintegrating Armenian women into post-Ottoman cities / Vah Tachjian "This time women as well got involved in politics!" : nineteenth century Ottoman women's organizations and political agency / Nazan Maksudyan Discourses and narratives of gender in the urban context ; Early republican Turkish orientalism : the erotic picture of an Algerian woman and the notion of beauty between the "west" and the "orient" / Nora Lafi The urban experience in women's memoirs : Mediha Kayra's World War I notebook / Christoph Herzog Notes on contributors ; Bibliography ; Index. | 
