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来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY,Vol.44,Issue5,P.811-834

语言

英文

关键字

public transit; Turkish Republic; Ottoman Turkey; public sphere; sites of negotiation

作者单位

[Ryan, James] Univ Penn, Dept Hist, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA. Ryan, J (reprint author), Univ Penn, 340 N Front St,Apt A, Philadelphia, PA 19106 USA. E-Mail: jamryan@sas.upenn.edu

摘要

With the introduction of the horse-drawn tramway in 1871, the citizens of Istanbul were forced to reckon with a new type of public spacethe crowded confines of the tramcar. This article focuses on the removal of a curtain that separated men and women on public transit in 1923, analyzing the discourses that shaped the decision and the way in which gendered discourses around public transit were altered at the outset of the Turkish Republic by the curtain's removal. Building on the work of Lauren Berlant and Alev Cnar, I suggest that the tramcar constituted an intimate public sphere and site of negotiation in which citizens came to both confront and negotiate modern problems ranging from morality to fashion in a way that was functionally different from other public spaces.