The author focuses on the lives of ordinary Muslim women living in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.
The book reveals not only their wartime problems, but also those of everyday life on the Ottoman Home Front. It questions the existing literature's excessive focus on the Ottoman middle class, using new archive sources such as women's petitions to extend the scope of Ottoman=Turkish women's history.
The author allows readers to draw intriguing comparisons between the past and the current events of today's Middle East.
