Women's World (Ottoman magazine)
The writer Yaşar Nezihe on the cover of the 124th issue of the Ottoman feminist magazine Kadınlar Dünyası | |
| Editor-in-Chief | Emine Seher Hanim (issues 1–108) |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Daily (for the first 100 days), then weekly |
| Format | 4 pages (issues 1–100); 16 pages with images by time of final publication |
| Total circulation | >3,000 |
| Founder | Nuriye Ulviye Mevlan Civelek |
| Founded | 4 April 1913 |
| Final issue | 21 May 1921 |
| Country | Turkey |
Women's World (Turkish: Kadınlar Dünyası) was a women's magazine that was published in Turkey from 4 April 1913, after the Balkan Wars, until 1921. The founder of the magazine was Nuriye Ulviye Mevlan Civelek. It was published by women writers in the Ottoman Society for the Defence of Women's Rights (Turkish: Osmanlı Müdafaa-i Hukuk-ı Nisvan Cemiyeti).
The magazine's purpose was to increase women's rights and freedoms, to raise awareness of women and to enable them to be active in work and social life. It was the first explicitly feminist magazine of the Ottoman Empire,: 337 and the first to publish photographs of Ottoman Muslim women.: 337 The first 100 issues of Women's World, copies of which are in the archives of the Women's Works Library and Information Center Foundation, were transliterated into Roman script and republished by the foundation in 2009.