Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History

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Book Review| November 01 2019 Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History. Havlioğlu, Didem. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2017. xxv + 220 pages. isbn 9780815635499. N. İpek Hüner Cora N. İpek Hüner Cora N. İPEK HÜNER CORA is lecturer in the Department of Turkish Languages and Literatures at Boğaziçi University. Contact: ipek.cora@boun.edu.tr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 395–397. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7720795 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation N. İpek Hüner Cora; Mihrî Hatun: Performance, Gender Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 November 2019; 15 (3): 395–397. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7720795 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsJournal of Middle East Women's Studies Search Advanced Search Focusing on the celebrated woman poet Mihrî Hatun (ca. 1460–1515), this book is a timely addition to early modern Ottoman literary history, which deploys gender as an analytic category. The introduction presents Mihrî Hatun and provides a literature review on Ottoman poetry and on studies of her, contextualized with examples from European and Islamicate literatures. It also introduces different concepts of gender analysis, such as marginality, performativity, and the subject position, using Mihrî Hatun as an example. The remainder of the book consists of six chapters divided into two thematic sections, followed by an epilogue and an appendix containing a selection of her poetry.The first part is titled “Mihrî Hatun: The Making of a Woman Poet.” Starting with paraphrases of her poetry, the first chapter introduces Mihrî Hatun the woman, anxious after a poetic exchange with a... Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies2019 You do not currently have access to this content.