id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_dstg5yl7qzeu7gdpooplmlp4km Berrak Burçak Hygienic beauty: discussing Ottoman-Muslim female beauty, health and hygiene in the Hamidian Era 2018 19 .pdf application/pdf 10887 923 69 To cite this article: Berrak Burçak (2018) Hygienic beauty: discussing Ottoman-Muslim female beauty, health and hygiene in the Hamidian Era, Middle Eastern Studies, 54:3, 343-360, DOI: dangers of), skin-care, female health and hygiene.4 In this particular article, Asım underlined the importance of having a fresh appearance and urged his readers to preserve their This article, which examines the popular press targeted at an Ottoman-Muslim audience, argues that imperial anxieties concerning the future of the Ottoman Empire in general and the state of its Muslim population in particular shifted female beauty from a Beauty was also now discussed within a Western hygienic-medical discourse establishing a firm connection between beauty and health with special emphasis on maintaining a 'good complexion'. in the Hamidian Era because beauty became a nexus of various issues including the making of 'familial reform', particularly with respect to Ottoman-Muslim marriage and female ./cache/work_dstg5yl7qzeu7gdpooplmlp4km.pdf ./txt/work_dstg5yl7qzeu7gdpooplmlp4km.txt