Jennifer Manoukian
The Armenian
press in the late Ottoman Empire was the site
of heated debates among writers and intellectuals, who would rip apart
each
other’s arguments and attack each other’s character with a ferociousness
that might surprise even the most jaded, twenty-first century reader.
The article above sparked
a lengthy debate on education in the pages of the Constantinople-based
newspaper Massis. While keeping its
focus on the unique challenges facing young female teachers, the article
also touches on thorny gender and class inequalities that inflamed some
Armenian
intellectuals and drove them to air their vitriol in a series of
responses to
the article.
