Being a writer woman in the nineteenth century: Patriarchal similarities beyond the differences between Lou-Salomé’s and Fatma Aliye’s novels

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2024-9

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Genç, Beyza

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This study aims to show how women’s struggles against patriarchy intersect across the cultures. In this respect, this study examines the patriarchal similarities beyond the differences between Lou-Salomé’s and Fatma Aliye’s experiences and novels as two contemporary writer women of the nineteenth century. In this study, qualitative content analysis is applied to both writer women’s selected novels by adopting a feminist methodology. For the qualitative content analysis, women’s emancipation is selected as the main theme, and women’s education, women’s economic independence, women’s conjugal rights, and women’s solidarity are selected as the sub-themes related to it. Related to these predefined themes, eight novels, four from each writer women, are selected to analyze, which are Ruth (1895), Fenitschka (1896), Deviations (1898), and Anneliese's House (1919) by Lou-Salomé and Muhadarat (1891) Refet (1897), Levayih-i Hayat (1897), and Udi (1899) by Fatma Aliye. The findings of the study reveal that both Lou-Salomé and Fatma Aliye offered women’s education, women’s economic independence, women’s conjugal rights and women’s solidarity as tools for women’s emancipation. Nevertheless, the scope of each theme differs from one writer woman to the other based on their societies’ conditions. As a result, in the light of the analysis, it is argued that although women’s experiences differ based on their different identity markers, and the geographical and historical context they live in, their struggles against patriarchy intersect.

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Women’s emancipation, Women’s solidarity, Lou-Salomé, Fatma Aliye, Feminist literature

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/111406

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis