Feminism in Armenian

Lives and Texts Through Empire, Genocide, and Diaspora

Melissa Bilal, Lerna Ekmekçioğlu (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

576 Seiten

2026
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
9780253075642 (ISBN)

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From the early 1860s, when the first Armenian women's journal began publication in Constantinople, to the late 1960s, when the longest-running Armenian women's journal of the post-genocide diaspora folded in Beirut, Armenian feminists actively participated in contemporary social and political developments. Even so, their writings remain scarce and understudied to the present day.
Feminism in Armenian explores this first hundred years of modern Armenian feminism through an intergenerational and intertextual study. Tracing the lives and work of twelve public intellectuals, Melissa Bilal and Lerna Ekmekcioglu connect these women's voices to each other and to major contemporary historical moments. As these women developed an intersectional feminist politics for their rights as both women and Armenians, their lives took them from Ottoman Constantinople to the farthest reaches of the globe, including Egypt, modern Turkey, Lebanon, Soviet Armenia, France, and the United States. Most of them also felt the personal and intellectual impact of the 1915 Armenian genocide. Their rich collection of texts—translated from the original Armenian and French—include life writing, fictional accounts, opinion pieces, editorials, personal correspondence, and more.
Highlighting the lives and activism of a racialized and diasporic group, Feminism in Armenian allows for a fresh reading of Ottoman and post-Ottoman Armenian history.

Melissa Bilal is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Ethnomusicology and Music at UCLA where she holds the Promise Chair in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture. She is author, with Lerna Ekmekcioglu, of A Cry for Justice: Five Armenian Feminists from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey. Lerna Ekmekcioglu is McMillan-Stewart Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is author of Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-genocide Turkey, and, with Melissa Bilal, of A Cry for Justice: Five Armenian Feminists from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey. Bilal and Ekmekcioglu published their first book, A Cry for Justice: Five Armenian Feminists from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey, in 2006.

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Place Names
Introducing Feminism in Armenian
1. Yelbis Gesaratsian (1830–1913)
2. Srpuhi Dussap (1841–1901)
3. Zabel Asadur (Sibil, 1863–1934)
4. Anayis (Yevpime Avedisian, 1872–1950)
5. Zaruhi Kalemkerian (Yevderbe, 1874–1971)
6. Arshaguhi Teotig (1875–1922)
7. Mari Beylerian (1877–1915?)
8. Zabel Yesayan (1878–1943?)
9. Zaruhi Bahri (1880–1958)
10. Hayganush Mark (1882–1966)
11. Varouhie Calantar Nalbandian (Zarevand, 1893–1978)
12. Siran Seza (Kupelian, 1903–1973)
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Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.7.2026
Reihe/Serie	Ottomanica: Voices, Sources, Perspectives
Zusatzinfo	27 color illus., 45 b&w illus.
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9780253075642 / 9780253075642
Zustand	Neuware