The starting point for this study has been Anderson's definition of nation as an imagined community according to which individuals imagine that they belong to same national collectivity in their minds. Even though Anderson talks about the member of the imagined community as gender free subject, it is obvious that each and every member of this community is imagined either as male or female subject. Being a female or male subject, in turn, affects the form of belonging to the imagined community. In order to understand the ongoing production of gendered nation in Anderson's sense which is mainly realized in cultural domain, novels play a significant role in terms of representing the imagined boundaries and functioning as mediums through which cultural difference is expressed. The aim of this study is to examine the making of women as gendered national subjects in the novels in the pre-Republican (Ottoman-Turkish) and early Republican period (1908-1938) by focusing on women's images and to analyze the formation of gendered national identity.