Gülhan Balsoy
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5443235 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gülhan Balsoy |
| PRENOMES | Gülhan |
| SOBRENOME | Balsoy |
| ASSINATURA | BALSOY G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Istanbul Bilgi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0466-650X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
From the Deathbed to the Register
The Ottoman Empire instituted state-sponsored inspection and registration of the dead in the early nineteenth century. For the first time, medical professionals known as tabib were hired to investigate the causes of deaths within Istanbul's perimeters. This initial surveillance effort in 1838-39 created the city's first two death registers, comprising 9,500 individual cases in total. In the light of these records, the current study investigates t…
Women in working life” in the early years of republican Turkey
This article will explore the experiences of working women in the late 1920s as expressed by themselves. It will reflect on women's experiences in work in the early years of the Republic through the example of a survey titled 'Women in Working Life' (İş Hayatında Kadın) published in the Vakit Newspaper between March 31 and May 4 1929. It will ask questions related to class, gender, and being in paid work as a woman in the early years of the repub…
An Overview of Istanbul's Death Registers (1838–1840) Using Spectral Clustering
An Overview of Istanbul's Death Registers (1838–1840) Using Spectral Clustering Gülhan Balsoy (bio), Gizem Fidan (bio), Cihangir Gündoğdu (bio), Murat Güvenç (bio), and Murat Tülek1 (bio) KEYWORDS Death registers, historical demography, death and social life, spectral clustering The Sources and Context Our project focuses on two Istanbul death registers (vefeyât defterleri) from 1838 and 1840. The first register is titled "The Book of Deceased Mu…
Crime, Gender, Sexuality
In 1914, a Turkish novella depicting a young woman pressing a dagger to the throat of a bearded old man on its cover, with the title Bloody Fairy ( Kanlı Peri ), appeared for sale on bookshelves in the capital of the Ottoman Empire (Fig. 1). This relatively small book of fifty-four pages, with its price as low as 50 paras, was available to almost anybody who wanted to purchase and read it. Bloody Fairy was the first of a popular series of ten mur…
Ottoman death registers ( Vefeyât Defterleri ) and recording deaths in Istanbul, 1838–1839
This article presents an analysis of the first recognisably modern-style death registers in the Ottoman Empire. These were produced, in 1838–9, as a result of the state’s reaction to the cholera pandemic of 1831. This article shows how these registers were designed and structured, how they differed to those that preceded and came after them and so occupied a key point in the transition to the medicalisation of death and the import of Western-styl…
Made in Egypt
This book is an ethnographic study of the economic activities of women workers at an export-oriented garment manufacturing firm located within Port Said’s Export Processing Zone. With its workforce of about 450 employees, almost half of them female, this firm is a good case to discuss the public and visible economic activities of women in Egypt’s globalized textile sector. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in 2004—almost the peak of neoliberalism—Le…
Meltem Türköz. Naming and Nation-Building in Turkey
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Haseki Women’s Hospital and the female destitute of nineteenth-century Istanbul
This article is on one of the longest-lived medical institutions of the Ottoman Empire, the Haseki Hospital. I will try to glimpse to the daily workings of the Haseki Hospital and the transformations it underwent in terms of the services it offered, its patients, its social functions, and its relevance for the urban lives of the destitute women of the empire for the period between the 1830s and 1893. During that period, the Haseki Women's Hospita…
The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838–1900
Epidemics, migration and territorial losses led to population decline in early nineteenth-century Turkey. In response, Ottoman elites began a programme of population growth. Balsoy uses previously untapped archival sources to examine these developments, arguing that these changes caused reproduction to become a political experience.
Infanticide in Nineteenth Century Ottoman Society
This article examines a largely overlooked topic in scholarship on Ottoman history and discusses the cases of the murder of infants in Ottoman towns and cities. Based on archival findings, the article asks questions such as: what were the motivations behind child murder, who carried out this act, who were the victims, what were the methods used, and how extensive was it in the Ottoman society? The nature of this crime also forces us to problemati…
Gendering Ottoman Labor History
This article examines the “mutual distancing” between Ottoman labor history and women’s and gender history. For this purpose, I first summarize the scholarship produced by each field and scrutinize the ways in which both fields have remained unresponsive toward one another. I then offer a specific way to make women visible to labor history in the particular setting of the Cibali Régie Factory in the early decades of the twentieth century. Using p…
Gendering Ottoman Labor History
This article examines the “mutual distancing” between Ottoman labor history and women’s and gender history. For this purpose, I first summarize the scholarship produced by each field and scrutinize the ways in which both fields have remained unresponsive toward one another. I then offer a specific way to make women visible to labor history in the particular setting of the Cibali Régie Factory in the early decades of the twentieth century. Using p…
Haseki Women’s Hospital and the female destitute of nineteenth-century Istanbul
This article is on one of the longest-lived medical institutions of the Ottoman Empire, the Haseki Hospital. I will try to glimpse to the daily workings of the Haseki Hospital and the transformations it underwent in terms of the services it offered, its patients, its social functions, and its relevance for the urban lives of the destitute women of the empire for the period between the 1830s and 1893. During that period, the Haseki Women's Hospita…
Gendering Ottoman Labor History
This article examines the “mutual distancing” between Ottoman labor history and women’s and gender history. For this purpose, I first summarize the scholarship produced by each field and scrutinize the ways in which both fields have remained unresponsive toward one another. I then offer a specific way to make women visible to labor history in the particular setting of the Cibali Régie Factory in the early decades of the twentieth century. Using p…
Infanticide in Nineteenth Century Ottoman Society
This article examines a largely overlooked topic in scholarship on Ottoman history and discusses the cases of the murder of infants in Ottoman towns and cities. Based on archival findings, the article asks questions such as: what were the motivations behind child murder, who carried out this act, who were the victims, what were the methods used, and how extensive was it in the Ottoman society? The nature of this crime also forces us to problemati…
The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838–1900
Epidemics, migration and territorial losses led to population decline in early nineteenth-century Turkey. In response, Ottoman elites began a programme of population growth. Balsoy uses previously untapped archival sources to examine these developments, arguing that these changes caused reproduction to become a political experience.
Meltem Türköz. Naming and Nation-Building in Turkey
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Haseki Women’s Hospital and the female destitute of nineteenth-century Istanbul
This article is on one of the longest-lived medical institutions of the Ottoman Empire, the Haseki Hospital. I will try to glimpse to the daily workings of the Haseki Hospital and the transformations it underwent in terms of the services it offered, its patients, its social functions, and its relevance for the urban lives of the destitute women of the empire for the period between the 1830s and 1893. During that period, the Haseki Women's Hospita…
Made in Egypt
This book is an ethnographic study of the economic activities of women workers at an export-oriented garment manufacturing firm located within Port Said’s Export Processing Zone. With its workforce of about 450 employees, almost half of them female, this firm is a good case to discuss the public and visible economic activities of women in Egypt’s globalized textile sector. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in 2004—almost the peak of neoliberalism—Le…
Ottoman death registers ( Vefeyât Defterleri ) and recording deaths in Istanbul, 1838–1839
This article presents an analysis of the first recognisably modern-style death registers in the Ottoman Empire. These were produced, in 1838–9, as a result of the state’s reaction to the cholera pandemic of 1831. This article shows how these registers were designed and structured, how they differed to those that preceded and came after them and so occupied a key point in the transition to the medicalisation of death and the import of Western-styl…
An Overview of Istanbul's Death Registers (1838–1840) Using Spectral Clustering
An Overview of Istanbul's Death Registers (1838–1840) Using Spectral Clustering Gülhan Balsoy (bio), Gizem Fidan (bio), Cihangir Gündoğdu (bio), Murat Güvenç (bio), and Murat Tülek1 (bio) KEYWORDS Death registers, historical demography, death and social life, spectral clustering The Sources and Context Our project focuses on two Istanbul death registers (vefeyât defterleri) from 1838 and 1840. The first register is titled "The Book of Deceased Mu…
Crime, Gender, Sexuality
In 1914, a Turkish novella depicting a young woman pressing a dagger to the throat of a bearded old man on its cover, with the title Bloody Fairy ( Kanlı Peri ), appeared for sale on bookshelves in the capital of the Ottoman Empire (Fig. 1). This relatively small book of fifty-four pages, with its price as low as 50 paras, was available to almost anybody who wanted to purchase and read it. Bloody Fairy was the first of a popular series of ten mur…
From the Deathbed to the Register
The Ottoman Empire instituted state-sponsored inspection and registration of the dead in the early nineteenth century. For the first time, medical professionals known as tabib were hired to investigate the causes of deaths within Istanbul's perimeters. This initial surveillance effort in 1838-39 created the city's first two death registers, comprising 9,500 individual cases in total. In the light of these records, the current study investigates t…
Women in working life” in the early years of republican Turkey
This article will explore the experiences of working women in the late 1920s as expressed by themselves. It will reflect on women's experiences in work in the early years of the Republic through the example of a survey titled 'Women in Working Life' (İş Hayatında Kadın) published in the Vakit Newspaper between March 31 and May 4 1929. It will ask questions related to class, gender, and being in paid work as a woman in the early years of the repub…
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