Headscarf Politics In Turkey: A Postcolonial Reading

This book questions the 'role model' status of the Turkish Republic with respect to the advancement of female agency in a secular context by using the study of women with headscarves as a case in point. Turkey's commitment to modernization depends heavily on secularism which involves, among other things, the westernization of women's appearance.

• • Author: M. Kavakci Islam, Merve Kavakci
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Nov 11, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 219 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 113748473X
• • ISBN-13: 9781137484734