Hygienic beauty
Discussing Ottoman-Muslim female beauty, health and hygiene in the Hamidian Era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10280441 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Berrak Burçak (0000-0003-4354-9776, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 343-360 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Middle Eastern Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-3206 • E-ISSN: 1743-7881 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00263206.2018.1427073 |
| OpenAlex | W2789944074 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article examines discussions on Ottoman-Muslim female beauty, health and hygiene in the Hamidian Era (1876–1909). Analysing the Hamidian popular press, advice literature and textbooks for girls, the article argues that these discussions were more than just female ‘physical culture’ debates, involving larger issues of late-Ottoman regeneration. Wars, epidemics, massive migration movements and fluctuations in population pushed the late-Ottoman state to create healthy generations as a productive force to secure the Empire's future in general and the Ottoman Muslim population's welfare in particular. Maintaining good health expanded from a religious obligation into now also becoming a patriotic duty incumbent upon Ottoman subjects knowing and applying modern hygienic principles. Focus on Ottoman-Muslim women's procreativity shifted female beauty into a public discussion, now defined as a reflection of health. The new hygienic beauty discourse distinguished between preserving vs. harming one's health in the face of Western fashions and cosmetics: healthy beauty mirrored a ‘good complexion’
Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Duty · Face (sociological concept · Hygiene · Obligation · Ottoman empire · Political science · Politics · Population · Social science · Sociology · Demography · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Medicine · Ottoman and Turkish Studies · Turkey's Politics and Society
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |