Child and Nation in Early Republican Turkey

Women, Gender, and Sex in the Ottoman World

with Yasemin Gencer

hosted by Chris Gratien and Emily Neumeier

Following the World War I period, the founders of a new Turkish Republic sought to define and legitimize the new order as a break with the Ottoman past. In this episode, Yasemin Gencer explains the ways in which notions such as childhood were used to construct the image of a renewed Turkish society in the nationalist press during the early years of the Republican period.

« Click for More »