Istanbul-Armenian historian and scientific worker of the University of Massachusetts Lerna Ekmekcioglu is archiving the history of Armenian feminism and books and works devoted to Armenian feminism on her personal website.

Gazetekarinca news website reports that the history being archived covers the years between 1860 and 1960.

The archive will feature the entire history of the movement launched in Istanbul and the struggle that began in the 1860s and ended with the shutdown of the “Young Armenian Woman” magazine publishing in Beirut in the 1960s.

In 2016, the University of Stanford published Ekmekcioglu’s first monograph entitled “The Restoration of Armenia: The Limitations on Belonging after the Genocide in Turkey”. Currently, Lerna is developing a textbook devoted to Armenian feminists in the Ottoman Empire and in the world after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Source: Ermenihaber.am