CHAPTER 13 THE MOVEMENT OF FEMINIST IDEAS: THE CASE OF KADINLAR DÜNYASI Elife Biçer-Deveci The Ottoman women’s journal Kadınlar Dünyası (Women’s World), published between 1913 and 1921, was the official organ of Osmanlı Müdafaa-i Hukuk-i Nisvan Cemiyeti (The Association for the Defence of Ottoman Women’s Rights). It is known as the first women’s journal to raise radical demands for women in the Ottoman Empire and has been characterized as the culmination of the Ottoman-Turkish women’s movement in the Second Constitutional Period. 1 It also defined itself as a feminist journal and as part of a general international women’s movement. 2 In this article, I discuss this journal as an outcome of the processes of globalization of feminist movements in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century. I will likewise demonstrate the transnational connectedness of the Ottoman-Turkish women’s movement. Through an examination of Kadınlar Dünyası and the participation of Ottoman women’s movements in international congresses, the mutual influences between international women’s organizations and the Ottoman women’s movement in the early twen- tieth century can be observed and investigated. I will do so from the perspective of ‘entangled history’, i.e. a historical perspective which LiatKozma_15_cha13.indd 347 LiatKozma_15_cha13.indd 347 5/8/2014 10:39:25 AM 5/8/2014 10:39:25 AM