Women and the Transfer of Knowledge in the Black Sea Region
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German researcher August Hacksthausen, who was in Armenia in the first half of the 19th century, writes that Armenian women have equal rights as compared to other Asian peoples around the world. Young women are free to get married for love, not by force, as
The start of organized public activist of Armenian women is considered 1847 during which women from Khasgyugh from the Ottoman Empire came together and founded an association. No information on this organization is preserved, but it is known that the main goal of it was
I In the 19th century, some oratorical discussions on women’s freedom (emancipation) were going on among Constantinople’s community, initiating different interpretations. The newspaper Tsaghik (Flower) in their column Freedom to Women wrote that women by nature are feeble beings, and they exploit men[1]. Considering women’s freedom
Srbuhi was one of the progressive Armenian women of her time, one of the pioneers of the introduction of feministic ideas and movement in Armenian (namely in Western Armenian reality), as well as a poet and a novelist. She was born in Constantinople in 1841