Deconstructing Images of The Turkish Woman

by Arat, Zehra F.

• ISBN13: 9780312235062
• ISBN10: 0312235062
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-13
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Along with the rest of the world, the country of Turkey is beset by efforts to push women into a particular prototype. This collection of essays seeks to combat such efforts by delving below the surface of common stereotypes surrounding Turkish women. Encompassing such diverse fields of study as political science, economics, business, ethnography, history, and literature, Deconstructing Images of "The Turkish Woman" includes experts from around the world who explore various images attributed to or imposed upon Turkish women. Written from the perspective of the 1990s, the essays evolve around the unifying theme of changes and continuities in the images of Turkish women from the late 19th century to the present. Contributors : Aynur Demirdirek * Irvin Cemil Schick * Katherine E. Fleming * Ayse Durakbasa * Zehra Arat * Isik Urla Zeytinoglu * Emine Onaran-Incirlioglu * Hayat Kabasakal * Aynur Ilyasoglu * Carel Bertram * Arzu Ouml;ztuuml;rkmen * Yesim Arat

Author Biography

Zehra F. Arat is Professor of Political Science and the Coordinator of the Women’s Studies Program at Purchase College of the State University of New York.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	vii
Acknowledgments	viii
Introduction: Politics of Representation and Identity	1	(36)
Zehra F. Arat
PART I. THE LATE OTTOMAN ERA
Dressing for Revolution: Mother, Nation, Citizen, and Subversive in the Ottoman Satirical Press, 1908--1911	37	(28)
Palmira Brummett
In Pursuit of the Ottoman Women's Movement	65	(18)
Aynur Demirdirek
Zehra F. Arat
The Women of Turkey as Sexual Personae: Images from Western Literature	83	(18)
Irvin Cemil Schick
Shadows in the Missionary Garden of Roses: Women of Turkey in American Missionary Texts	101	(26)
K. Pelin Basci
PART II. THE EARLY YEARS OF THE REPUBLIC
Women as Preservers of the Past: Ziya Gokalp and Women's Reform	127	(12)
K. E. Fleming
Kemalism as Identity Politics in Turkey	139	(18)
Ayse Durakbasa
Educating the Daughters of the Republic	157	(26)
Zehra F. Arat
PART III. THE ERA OF POLITICAL MOBILIZATION AND DIVERSITY
Constructed Images as Employment Restrictions: Determinants of Female Labor in Turkey	183	(16)
Isik Urla Zeytinoglu
Images of Village Women in Turkey: Models and Anomalies	199	(26)
Emine Onaran Incirlioglu
A Profile of Top Women Managers in Turkey	225	(16)
Hayat Kabasakal
Islamist Women in Turkey: Their Identity and Self-Image	241	(22)
Aynur Ilyasoglu
Restructuring the House, Restructuring the Self: Renegotiating the Meanings of Place in the Turkish Short Story	263	(12)
Carel Bertram
A Short History of Kadinca Magazine and Its Feminism	275	(20)
Arzu Ozturkmen
Feminist Institutions and Democratic Aspirations: The Case of the Purple Roof Women's Shelter Foundation	295	(16)
Yasim Arat
References	311	(29)
Contributors	340