Women's Memory: The Problem of Sources (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443831932)

D. Fatma Ture is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at Ankara University, Turkey. She received her PhD from the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Bogazici University, and her MA from the Department of Turkish Literature and Language at the same university. Her dissertation title is Images of Istanbul Women in the 1920s. Her publications include Jane Eyre and Muhazarat, Marmara Universitesi Turkluk Arastirmalari Dergisi, 1991; Sexual Politics and Female Narrative, Sozden Yaziya: Edebiyat Incelemeleri, 1994; Women's Manners in History, Sanat Dunyamiz 63, 1996; Obscenity in Popular Literature, Album 1, 1997; An a la Franca Woman, Toplumsal Tarih (Special Issue), 1997; Obscenity out of Freedom, Tarih ve Toplum (Special Issue), 1999; Secret History, Tarih ve Toplum (Secial Issue), 2001; and Erotic Popular Literature in the Second Constitution Era, Eleftherotypia, 2006. Birsen Talay Kesoglu graduated from Bogazici University, Turkey, with a BA in Philosophy. She earned her MA in History at Bogazici University and received her PhD from the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History at the same university with a dissertation entitled Socialist Women's Organisations in Turkey 1975-1980. She was the editor-in-chief of the journal Tarih ve Toplum (History and Society) between the years 1998-2003 and worked for Iletisim Publishers as an editor of books on historical and political research and memoirs. Her articles have appeared in several journals and books. Her published works are on the late Ottoman period, Turkish modern history, women's history, women's movements, oral history, women's studies and gender. Her latest book Turk Kadini 1918-1919 (Turkish Woman, 1918-1919) was published in 2010 October by the Women's Library and Information Centre Foundation, Istanbul. She has been teaching at Kadir Has University, Istanbul since 2004.