As Anna Bowman Dodd (1855-1929), a New York travel writer and journalist, journeyed to Istanbul with the American Ambassador to France she embarked on a detailed account of the city and its people. Interested in documenting the changes in Turkey brought about by the "embrace" of modernity and progress, she considers Turkish women's rights, harems and marriage, the management of the household, education, slavery, the Sultan's reign, and nationalist movements in the last days of the Ottoman Empire. She caters to the American market for Orientalism but is also reflexive about its employment, both invoking and undercutting stereotypes as she addresses the "Eastern Question."
- ISBN10 1230204016
- ISBN13 9781230204017
- Publish Date 12 September 2013 (first published 8 October 2004)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Imprint Theclassics.Us
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 108
- Language English