The Armenian genocide, which occurred more than a hundred years ago, remains an important topic of scholarly research with a number of serious works regarding its historical background and political outcomes in recent years. With Recovering Armenia Lerna Ekmekçioğlu sheds light on a long-overlooked issue: Armenians who remained in Turkey after the massacres. The unique and major contribution of this work is its specific focus on Armenian women’s “forced” roles in the process of Armenian nation building under theTurkish government despite its role in perpetrating the massacres. In “A Climate for Abduction, a Climate for Redemption,” Ekmekçioğlu (2013) encouraged a consideration of women’s traumatic experiences of the 1915 genocide by exploring the wartime transfer of women and children fromone ethnic group (Armenians) to another (Turks and more generally Muslims) and its partial annulment after the war. Recovering Armenia extends the time frame from 1915 until 1933 and moves the focus from the survival of Armenians to the survival of Armenianness, or Armenian identity, in post-genocide Turkey with a feminist perspective. The fundamental questions she answers are: How was it possible for these women to maintain their feminist ideals in a country that attempted to persecute the entire Armenian nation? How could feminists reconcile their demand for gender equality with solidarity with all “women” in Turkey?How could feminists reconcile their demand for gender equality with their wish to perpetuate Armenian specificity?How could one be an Armenian and a feminist after genocide and minoritization in Turkey? When it comes to genocidal events and their consequences, focus usually falls on the political and public events that follow the massacres. In the case of women, nevertheless, we tend to focus on women’s victimhood during the genocide more than on how they survive in the aftermath. Ekmekçioğlu shows that Armenian women in Turkey confronted another phase of suffering in the post-genocide era when they were forced to forget or

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恢复亚美尼亚：种族灭绝后土耳其的归属感

发生在一百多年前的亚美尼亚种族灭绝仍然是学术研究的重要课题，近年来有许多关于其历史背景和政治结果的严肃著作。随着恢复亚美尼亚，勒纳·埃克梅克西奥卢揭示了一个长期被忽视的问题：大屠杀后留在土耳其的亚美尼亚人。这项工作的独特和主要贡献是它特别关注亚美尼亚妇女在土耳其政府领导下的亚美尼亚国家建设过程中的“被迫”角色，尽管其在实施大屠杀中发挥了作用。在“绑架的气候，救赎的气候，” Ekmekçioğlu（2013 年）通过探索战时妇女和儿童从一个族群（亚美尼亚人）转移到另一个族群（土耳其人和更普遍的穆斯林）及其在战后部分废除的情况，鼓励考虑妇女在 1915 年种族灭绝中的创伤经历。恢复亚美尼亚将时间框架从 1915 年延长到 1933 年，并将焦点从亚美尼亚人的生存转移到亚美尼亚人的生存，或亚美尼亚身份，在种族灭绝后的土耳其，从女权主义的角度来看。她回答的基本问题是：在一个试图迫害整个亚美尼亚民族的国家，这些妇女怎么可能保持她们的女权主义理想？女权主义者如何将她们对性别平等的要求与土耳其所有“女性”的团结相协调？女权主义者如何将她们对性别平等的要求与她们希望延续亚美尼亚特殊性的愿望相协调？在经历了种族灭绝和少数民族化之后，一个亚美尼亚人如何成为一名女权主义者？火鸡？当谈到种族灭绝事件及其后果时，焦点通常落在大屠杀之后的政治和公共事件上。然而，就女性而言，我们更倾向于关注女性在种族灭绝期间的受害情况，而不是她们在战后如何生存。