Zehra Betul Atasoy
Kadir Has University, Faculty of Art and Design, Faculty Member
- New Jersey Institute of Technology, Urban Systems, Graduate Studentadd
- History and Theory (Architecture), Gender Studies, History, History of architecture, Ottoman History, Travel Writing, and 10 moreHistory of Ottoman Art and Architecture, Ottoman-Turkish Westernization, Late Ottoman History, Architectural History, Microhistory and History of Everyday Life, History of Everyday Life, Women's History, Urban History, History of Medicine, and Social and Cultural History of Medicineedit
- Zehra Betul Atasoy holds a Ph.D. in the Urban Environment-History specialization in a dual degree program at the New ... moreZehra Betul Atasoy holds a Ph.D. in the Urban Environment-History specialization in a dual degree program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University. Her research explores the everyday practices of economically active urban women in early Republican Istanbul, aiming to recover the untold stories through different reformation efforts in fragmented urban spaces. Her recent research concentrates on the spatialization of preventive practices, the visibility of infectious diseases in public spaces, and the lived experience of health in the urban environment. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Architecture and her master’s degree in History of Architecture from Istanbul Technical University. Besides, she was an editor for Arkitera Architecture Center between 2011 and 2013. She was a fellow at the Istanbul Studies Center for the academic year of 2018-2019. She works as a lecturer at Kadir Has University-Faculty of Art and Design.edit
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Toplumları en çok etkileyen unsurlardan olan salgın hastalıkları, sosyal ve ekonomik tarih çalışmaları bağlamında ele almak yeni bir yönelim olarak görülse de esasen bir mecburiyettir. Özellikle Sanayi ve Fransız devrimleri sonrası... more
Toplumları en çok etkileyen unsurlardan olan salgın hastalıkları, sosyal ve ekonomik tarih çalışmaları bağlamında ele almak yeni bir yönelim olarak görülse de esasen bir mecburiyettir. Özellikle Sanayi ve Fransız devrimleri sonrası Avrupa’da dönüşen devlet yapısı ve bu dönüşümün bir nüvesi olan “sağlıklı vatandaş” düşüncesinin ortaya çıkması, kamu sağlığı uygulamalarının yaygınlaşma ve modernleşme sürecini de beraberinde getirmiştir. Bu sürecin bir parçası olarak devletin temel vazifesi sağlıklı vatandaşlar, işçiler ve askerler yetiştirmek olmuş, bu durum devlet-toplum ilişkisinde karşılıklı çıkara dayalı bir denge kurulmasının ve gündelik hayatta hem kısa, hem de uzun vadeli bazı temel pratiklerin yer edinmesinin önünü açmıştır. Elinizdeki kitap salgın hastalıklar ve kamu sağlığı uygulamalarını, çeşitli tarihsel dönemlerde devlet ve toplum perspektifinden inceleyen bir çalışmalar bütünüdür. Kitaptaki yazılar, kamu sağlığı ve kenti sıhhileştirme çabaları çerçevesinde mekan ve kurum özelinde bazı değerlendirmelerde de bulunarak, imparatorluğun ve cumhuriyetin genel sağlık politikası hakkında fikir vermektedir. Bu çalışma, bir taraftan Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’ndan Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’ne uzanan zaman diliminde devletin sağlıklı vatandaşlar yetiştirmek için tesis ettiği kurumları, bireylerin bu uğurda nasıl seferber edildiğini inceleyerek, devletin sağlık politikaları bağlamında zihniyet değişimini ele almakta; diğer taraftan ise toplumun belirleyiciliğine ve sağlık tarihinin ulusları aşan özelliğine dikkat çekerek, sınırların sadece devletleri birbirinden ayıran bir hattan ibaret olmadığını gözler önüne sermektedir
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Abortion, which women use as a last resort to terminate their pregnancies, corresponds with one of their utmost personal decisions and actions. Access to abortion -still controversial today- was at the center of state intervention in the... more
Abortion, which women use as a last resort to terminate their pregnancies, corresponds with one of their utmost personal decisions and actions. Access to abortion -still controversial today- was at the center of state intervention in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as a part of the population and public health policies. These policies found an expression through the emphasis on women's roles as mothers. During this period, abortion was described as an epidemic, particularly in big cities such as Istanbul, that women from all walks of life widely performed. This essay surveys changing restrictions on abortion from the late Ottoman to the Republican period, the legal framework on abortion in the early Republican era, the views of physicians and various intellectuals, the spatial distribution of private doctor’s offices in Istanbul, and the actors of abortion. As abortion was an illegal act and performed behind closed doors in the early Republican era, the recorded incidents of the actors and spaces of abortion are quite limited. By using primarily newspaper articles and literary works, this study aims to shed light on the temporal and spatial experiences of women who had abortions in early Republican Istanbul.
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This paper attempts to demonstrate how triangulating the available gender neutral or male-oriented information in the standard records with visual material provides for a closer level of insight into the experiences of female workers in... more
This paper attempts to demonstrate how triangulating the available gender neutral or male-oriented information in the standard records with visual material provides for a closer level of insight into the experiences of female workers in the Republican context.