Women and World War I in the Middle East

Dr. Serpil Atamaz
Assistant Professor of History
California State University, Sacramento

Dr. Serpil Atamaz reveals the truths behind gender separation during World War I. She reveals how studies of history are written by men, based around men, and told by men. She explains the basics around the causes and history of World War I, and the involvement from the Middle East. The war impacted Middle Eastern Women terribly, causing death, disease, rape, poverty, changes in employment and more. They started to volunteer, becoming nurses and working in factories, still without basic human rights. Atamaz shows how these women reacted and stayed strong through one of the hardest and most deadly parts of their history.

Recorded: October 29, 2018