A Partnership of Shared Labor: Women's Work, Family, and Collective Subjectivity in the Late Ottoman Women's Press ( Kadinlar Dünyasi , 1913–1921)

This article examines how Kadinlar Dünyasi , an Ottoman women's periodical, linked women's labor to dignity, economic independence, family welfare, and collective rights between 1913 and 1921. Through document analysis, 209 issues were identified. Four themes emerged: work as a humane right; education, vocation, and independence; labor as the basis of family welfare and national progress; and collective organization. The journal portrayed employment as a challenging dependency and enabled women to become contributors to households and communities. Across wartime and postwar conditions, this discourse reimagined marriage through reciprocity while justifying women's work through its usefulness to families and the nation.