Governing the National Family: Marriage, Gender, and Turkification in the Late Ottoman Empire
JOURNAL OF FAMILY HISTORY, 2026 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.1177/03631990261494563
- Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF FAMILY HISTORY
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, IBZ Online, Periodicals Index Online, American History and Life, EBSCO Education Source, Education Abstracts, Gender Studies Database, Historical Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Index Islamicus, Social Sciences Abstracts, Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO), Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest), Education Source Ultimate (EBSCO), Humanities Source Ultimate (EBSCO), Sociology Source Ultimate (EBSCO)
- Kocaeli Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This article argues that an ideal of the Turkish-Muslim family, centred on marriage, monogamy and women's cultural and reproductive responsibilities, became a central technology of Unionist nation-making in the late Ottoman Empire. Drawing on the K & imath;z & imath;l Konak Papers, women's periodicals and memoirs, it traces how marriage, family law and moral conduct were drawn into a graded project of Turkification. Unionist deliberations distinguished the legal regulation of the family from the cultivation of sexual morality through society and national culture. This ideal was reshaped by nationalist prescriptions and employed to reproduce national belonging and promote assimilation through marriage.