- Turkish and Middle East Studies, Modern Turkey, Turkish politics, Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Iranian Studies, and 11 moreWomen's History, Turkish Literature, Turkish Nationalism, Turkish Left, Middle East Studies, Social History, Ottoman History, Ottoman Studies, Middle East History, Ottoman Empire, and Genderedit
In this comprehensive analysis of the anti-veiling campaigns in interwar Turkey, Sevgi Adak casts light onto the historical context within which the meanings of veiling and unveiling in Turkey were formed. By shifting the focus from the... more
In this comprehensive analysis of the anti-veiling campaigns in interwar Turkey, Sevgi Adak casts light onto the historical context within which the meanings of veiling and unveiling in Turkey were formed. By shifting the focus from the high politics of the elite to the implementation of state policies, the book situates the anti-veiling campaigns as a space where the Kemalist reforms were negotiated, compromised and resisted by societal actors. Using previously unpublished archival material, Adak reveals the intricacies of the Kemalist modernisation process and provides a nuanced reading of the gender order established in the early republic by looking at the various ways women responded to the anti-veiling campaigns. A major contribution to the literature on the social history of modern Turkey, the book provides a complex analysis of these campaigns which goes beyond a simple binary between liberation and oppression.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/antiveiling-campaigns-in-turkey-9780755635030
https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/antiveiling-campaigns-in-turkey-9780755635030
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Research Symposium: Left-Wing Politics in MENA, published in MENA Politics, American Political Science Association's Middle East and North Africa Politics Section Newsletter
Edited by Francesco Cavatorta & Gamze Çavdar
Edited by Francesco Cavatorta & Gamze Çavdar
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This article analyzes how Turkish woman’s identity and the ‘other’ women placed in opposition to her have been constructed in the Turkish national memory by focusing on women’s images in the stories of Ömer Seyfeddin. It aims to explore... more
This article analyzes how Turkish woman’s identity and the ‘other’ women placed in opposition to her have been constructed in the Turkish national memory by focusing on women’s images in the stories of Ömer Seyfeddin. It aims to explore the making of Turkish women as national subjects, and the otherization of non Turkish/non-Muslim women as counter subjects of this gendered national identity in the case of early Turkish nationalism. It argues that being a central figure in the Turkish national canon,
Ömer Seyfeddin and his stories are key to the shaping of these gendered national identities. The article aims to show the double discourse Ömer Seyfeddin follows by depicting the ‘other’ women as sexually active, immoral subjects on the one hand and as devoted nationalists on the other. His admiration for and the otherization of the ‘other’ women shape his depiction of the Turkish women—that is, ‘our’ women. They are usually represented either as victims of the male brutality of other nationalisms, or as mothers, as bearers of a traditional, national essence, waiting to be awakened by the Turkish male subject.
Ömer Seyfeddin and his stories are key to the shaping of these gendered national identities. The article aims to show the double discourse Ömer Seyfeddin follows by depicting the ‘other’ women as sexually active, immoral subjects on the one hand and as devoted nationalists on the other. His admiration for and the otherization of the ‘other’ women shape his depiction of the Turkish women—that is, ‘our’ women. They are usually represented either as victims of the male brutality of other nationalisms, or as mothers, as bearers of a traditional, national essence, waiting to be awakened by the Turkish male subject.