The Politics of Female Beauty in Late Ottoman History
January 26, 2024 | 12:00PM - 2:00PM
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Online
This was an external online event
Beauty was political in the late Ottoman period. This presentation questions how and why beauty shifted from a personal and private aesthetic matter into a public, gendered, scienticized, and medicalized arena equated with civic duty and patriotism in the nineteenth century.
Co-Sponsor:
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Co-Sponsor:
Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
Co-Sponsor:
Department of History