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Women and Public Space in Turkey: Gender, Modernity and the Urban Experience
Selda Tuncer
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Description for Women and Public Space in Turkey: Gender, Modernity and the Urban Experience
Hardcover. Reveals how Turkish women experienced and participated in public life during the modernization process in Turkey between 1950 and 1980 Series: Library of Modern Turkey. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 3JJP; JFSG; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Turkey's process of `modernisation' developed rapidly during the second half of the twentieth century. New social and legal reforms were institutionalised and political and economic changes located the country as a more liberated, `Western-style' society. Women and Public Space in Turkey provides a historical understanding of women's experiences of this modernisation between 1950 and 1980, a vital period in which their participation in urban public life expanded through higher education and employment. Selda Tuncer examines the precise conditions that enabled women to leave the home and reveals how they perceived and experienced ... Read more
Turkey's process of `modernisation' developed rapidly during the second half of the twentieth century. New social and legal reforms were institutionalised and political and economic changes located the country as a more liberated, `Western-style' society. Women and Public Space in Turkey provides a historical understanding of women's experiences of this modernisation between 1950 and 1980, a vital period in which their participation in urban public life expanded through higher education and employment. Selda Tuncer examines the precise conditions that enabled women to leave the home and reveals how they perceived and experienced ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Series
Library of Modern Turkey
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784537524
SKU
V9781784537524
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About Selda Tuncer
Selda Tuncer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yuzuncu Yil University, Van, Turkey, and teaches courses on gender, the city and feminist methodology. She has worked at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, where she also completed her PhD. She has published in both Turkish and English on issues relating to Turkish culture and history.
Reviews for Women and Public Space in Turkey: Gender, Modernity and the Urban Experience
`A timely and much needed sociological study! Enriches our understanding of the sociohistorical contexts in (re)shaping public space in Turkey and contributes to the discourse on gender, modernity and public space.' - Margaret Abraham, Professor of Sociology, Hofstra University, `Based on well-informed, detailed ethnographic work, oral history methods and personal visual archives, this book tells the story of what took ... Read more