Abstract
This article analyzes the letters of Zeynep Hanım, one of the first modern women Turkish travelers written from various European cities. The rich experience of this traveler and feminist pioneer is collected in her letters, offering us her vision to the realities of the situation of Turkish and European women. The search for a Muslim and independent female identity in Europe is reflected in her letters. Like all the traveling women of her time, she reflected her observations in her correspondence comparing Turkish and European women, but exercising perhaps a more perceptive analysis than many other female travelers.
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Karavar, Nesrin
(2024)
"Zeynep Hanım: the first female Ottoman traveller between travelogue and autobiography,"
Soroud: The journal of Literacy Criticism: Vol. 7:
Iss.
1, Article 12.
Available at:
https://scholarhub.univh2c.ma/soroud/vol7/iss1/12