Hasmik Khalapyan
Articles by Hasmik Khalapyan
Tue Mar 12 2019
Armenian Women's Writing in the Ottoman Empire, Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries
“A male writer is free to be average, but never a female writer.” This is what 19th century writer Srbouhi Dussap told Zabel Yesayan when she announced she wanted to be a writer. Hasmik Khalapyan traces the extraordinary lives of Armenian women writers of the Ottoman Empire.
Sun Mar 08 2020
The “New Woman” for the “New Nation”
New national values and representations were being formed among Ottoman Armenians in the 19th century and the Woman's Question was an inseparable part of the formulation of a new national identity, Hasmik Khalapyan writes.
Thu Jul 11 2019
Marriage Law and Culture: Ottoman Armenians and Women's Efforts for Reform
Although Armenian women did not directly participate in the public discourse on the family structure and institution of marriage during the 19th to early 20th centuries in the Ottoman Empire, they articulated their concerns against gender inequalities through the voices of the fictional characters they created in their writings.
