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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 ceased publication in Beirut, Armenian feminists actively participated in contemporary social and political life. Even so, their writings remain scarce and understudied to the present day.
Feminism in Armenian explores the first hundred years of 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 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 various corners of the world, 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--includes life writing, fiction, opinion pieces, public speeches, 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 of Ethnomusicology and Music at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she holds the Promise Chair in Armenian Music, Arts, and Culture and directs the Armenian Music Program. She has published extensively on Armenian memory in 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.
Bilal and Ekmekcioglu published their first book, A Cry for Justice: Five Armenian Feminists from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey (in Turkish), in 2006.
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