| Sumario: | Prejudices, stereotypes, and discriminatory approaches that shake the idea that all individuals living on a global scale should be equal and that lay the groundwork for social hierarchy in society can be explained by the desire of the powerful to dominate the weak. The superiority of the majority over the minority, or the strong over the weak, expands its sphere of influence through exclusion, marginalization, objectification, denial, and stigmatization. In this context, stigmatization and marginalization are based on a foundation nourished by various arguments and rooted in a central axis. This foundation or axis may arise in many different areas such as ideology, power, gender, belief, ethnic identity, social class, or body perception. Social and class-based stigmatization in this context is backed by a powerful authority or ideology. Slavery, as an example of class-based stigmatization, represents the group that is dominated, exploited, and objectified in society. In the nineteenth century, a time of significant social, cultural, and societal upheavals, the development of human rights led to a questioning of the living conditions of concubines who had become objects of exploitation in society. In the novels of the Tanzimat Period, which focused on change and transformation, the issue of concubinage was fictionalized and became a means of social criticism. Through these fictional texts, the stigmatization and marginalization of concubines—who represent the oppressed class—by those in the ruling or master class is brought to light. However, differing perspectives and ideologies of authors regarding concubinage result in the stigmatization of concubines in some novels, while in others, they are idealized or glorified. Therefore, the ideology or worldview embraced by the authors leads to the portrayal of the same issue in both positive and negative atmospheres. In this study, the novels Sergüzeşt and Felâtun Bey ile Rakım Efendi will be examined within the framework of stigma theory.
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