"Servant Princess" of the modern home : domesticity and femininity in Turkey after electrification, 1923-1950

buir.advisorSavaş, Özlem
dc.contributor.authorŞavk, Bahar Emgin
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-08T20:19:47Z
dc.date.available2016-01-08T20:19:47Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.descriptionAnkara : The Department of Art, Design and Architecture, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2014.en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Ph. D.) -- Bilkent University, 2014.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references leaves 235-249.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation deals with the question how modern domesticity and modern femininity were discursively constructed in the advertisements and other promotional texts of electric appliances published between 1923 and 1950 in popular women’s and family magazines in Turkey. The issue is framed within socio-historical technology studies and the feminist histories of the early republican period. Moving forward from the claim that electricity had to be first domesticated to enter the homes, the study searches for the gendered connotations of this process. Besides, it ponders over the ways women are interpellated as modern subjects by the representations in question. To this end the dissertation carries on a discourse analysis of the visual and textual representations of electricity and electric powered domestic appliances. The images are discussed in their potential to bring forth the ambiguities in the definitions of modern domesticity and femininity. Analysis revealed that neither the middle-class ethos of domesticity nor the chaste woman of this family was the only idealized form of domesticity and femininity by the official discourses. There were rather different modernities defined distinctly based on various class positions all of which were approved by the republican cadres.en_US
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dc.description.statementofresponsibilityŞavk, Bahar Emginen_US
dc.embargo.release2016-11-17
dc.format.extentxiv, 249 leaves, illustrationsen_US
dc.identifier.itemidB148333
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/18490
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectDomestic Electrificationen_US
dc.subjectElectric Appliancesen_US
dc.subjectDomesticityen_US
dc.subjectFemininityen_US
dc.subjectModernizationen_US
dc.subject.lccHD9685.T8 S38 2014en_US
dc.subject.lcshElectrification--Turkey--History--20th century.en_US
dc.subject.lcshElectrification--Social aspects--Turkey.en_US
dc.subject.lcshTechnology and civilization.en_US
dc.subject.lcshHousehold appliances, Electric.en_US
dc.subject.lcshWomen--Turkey--History.en_US
dc.title"Servant Princess" of the modern home : domesticity and femininity in Turkey after electrification, 1923-1950en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitecture
thesis.degree.grantorBilkent University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D. (Doctor of Philosophy)

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