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Renegade Women: Gender, Identity, and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Author(s):  Eric R. Dursteler
Category:  History, Women Studies

This title is the Turkish translation of Renegade Women: Gender, Identity, and Boundaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean, The John Hopkins University Press, 2011. From the back cover of the English original version:

"This book uses the stories of early modern women in the Mediterranean who left their birthplaces, families, and religions to reveal the complex space women of the period occupied socially and politically.

In the narrow sense, the word "renegade" as used in the early modern Mediterranean referred to a Christian who had abandoned his or her religion to become a Muslim. With Renegade Women, Eric R Dursteler deftly redefines and broadens the term to include anyone who crossed the era's and region's religious, political, social, and gender boundaries. Drawing on archival research, he relates three tales of women whose lives afford great insight into both the specific experiences and condition of females in, and the broader cultural and societal practices and mores of, the early Mediterranean.

Through Beatrice Michiel of Venice, who fled an overbearing husband to join her renegade brother in Constantinople and took the name Fatima Hatun, Dursteler discusses how women could convert and relocate in order to raise their personal and familial status. In the parallel tales of the Christian Elena Civalelli and the Muslim Mihale Šatorovic, who both entered a Venetian convent to avoid unwanted, arranged marriages, he finds courageous young women who used the frontier between Ottoman and Venetian states to exercise a surprising degree of agency over their lives. And in the actions of four Muslim women of the Greek island of Milos—Aissè, her sisters Eminè and Catigè, and their mot More »

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Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences

Category:  Anthropology

This title is the Turkish translation of Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences, The University of Chicago Press, 1986, 1999. From the back cover of the English original:

"Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E. Marcus and Michael M.J. Fischer look closely at cultural anthropology's past accomplishments, its current predicaments, its future direction, and the insights it has to offer other fields of study. The result is a provocative work that is important for scholars interested in a critical approach to social science, art, literature, and history, as well as anthropology. This second edition considers new challenges to the field which have arisen since the book's original publication."

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Life Without Work: The Effects of Unemployment and Job Insecurity on the Individual and Family

 

In Turkey, widespread unemployment and job insecurity are chronic social problems that greatly affect individuals, families, and the entire society. The majority of public opinion polls over the last few years have revealed a general consensus that unemployment constitutes a problem of the highest priority for the country. Independent of the political orientations, society expects a solution to the issue. Unemployment and the fear of job loss (job insecurity) are generally considered economic problems; rarely does newspaper reporting go beyond the stories of individual drama and the destroyed lives that they cause. The current volume examines this critical issue from a scholarly perspective in its many dimensions. 
 
Unemployment or living in fear of job loss on a daily basis threatens the health of individuals and their family members. In addition to economic injustice and social exclusion, long-term unemployment causes high levels of stress, depression, anxiety, cardiovascular diseases, and many other psychological and physical health problems. 
 
Based on a broad sample of participants, this book thoroughly investigates not only the psychological and physical effects of unemployment and job insecurity on individual and family in Turkey, but also how these threats reflect themselves in work life. At the same time, Life without Work summarizes the previous research in the relevant fields and the most recent statistics on unemployment. Moreover, it offers recommendations regarding effective intervention programs and support. This book is a useful source not only for psychologists working on unemployment, but also for other social scientists, policy-makers, trade unionists, as well as the More »

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Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel

Author(s):  Michel Foucault
Category:  Literary Criticism

This title is Turkish translation of Raymond Roussel, Éditions Gallimard, 1992 (First published.) From the back cover of English version the Death and the Labirinth: The World of Raymond Roussel, Doubleday Books, 1986:
"Death and the Labyrinth is unique, being Foucault's only work on literature. For Foucault this was "by far the book I wrote most easily and with the greatest pleasure". Here, Foucault explores theory, criticism and psychology through the texts of Raymond Roussel, one of the fathers of experimental writing, whose work has been celebrated by the likes of Cocteau, Duchamp, Breton, Robbe Grillet, Gide and Giacometti."
 

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Roxolana in European Literature and Culture

Editor(s):  Galina Yermolenko

This title is the Turkish translation of Roxolana in European Literature and Culture, Ashgate Publishing Group, 2010. From the back cover of the English original:

"This collection is the first book-length scholarly study of the pervasiveness and significance of Roxolana in the European imagination. Roxolana, or "Hurrem Sultan," was a sixteenth-century Ukrainian woman who made an unprecedented career from harem slave and concubine to legal wife and advisor of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566). Her influence on Ottoman affairs generated legends in many a European country. The essays gathered here represent an interdisciplinary survey of her legacy; the contributors view Roxolana as a transnational figure that reflected the shifting European attitudes towards "the Other," and they investigate her image in a wide variety of sources, ranging from early modern historical chronicles, dramas and travel writings, to twentieth-century historical novels and plays. Also included are six European source texts featuring Roxolana, here translated into modern English for the first time.

Importantly, this collection examines Roxolana from both Western and Eastern European perspectives; source material is taken from England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Poland, and Ukraine. The volume is an important contribution to the study of early modern transnationalism, cross-cultural exchange, and notions of identity, the Self, and the Other."
 

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Koc University Press Book Talks

Life Without Work

A lecture by Nebi Sümer on his book  Life Without Work: The Effects of Unemployment and Job Insecurity on the Individual and Family, published by KUP in February, 2013.
 
Speaker: Nebi Sümer
 
Discussant: Işık Aytaç
 
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Koc University Press Book Talks

Medieval Constantinople: A Personal Odyssey and a Lost City

A lecture by Paul Magdalino on his book Medieval Istanbul: Urban Development of Constantinople Between Sixth and Thirteenth Centuries, published by KUP in January, 2012.

Speaker: Paul Magdalino

Discussant: Alessandra Ricci, Department of Archaeology and History of Art, Ko&c More »

31st International Istanbul Book Fair

Koc University Press will be at International Istanbul Book Fair, on the 3rd  Hall, 310B Booth between 17-25 November.

 

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Koc University Press Book Talks

 

How the East Learned to Live with the West
 
A lecture by Ayşe Zarakol on her book  After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West , published by KUP in August, 2012.
 
Speaker: Ayşe Zarakol
 
Discussant: Bahar Rumelili,Department of Interna More »

Koç University Press Book Talks

Does Literature Need Defense?

 

A lecture by Gregory Jusdanis on his book Fiction Agonistes: In Defense of Literature, published by KUP in March, 2012.

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