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Women and public space in Turkey : gender, modernity and the urban experience /

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"Turkey's process of 'modernization' developed rapidly during the second half of the twentieth century. New social and legal reforms were institutionalized and political and economic changes located the country as a more liberated, 'Western-style' society. Women and Pub...

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Main Author: Tuncer, Selda (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Library of modern Turkey.
Subjects:
Women > Turkey > Social conditions > 21st century.
City and town life > Turkey.
City and town life
Women > Social conditions
Turkey
2000-2099
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 2: Women, Nation-State and Public Space
  • 3: The Story of the Field
  • 4: The Herstory of the City: Women's Everyday Life in Ankara, 1950
  • 1980
  • 5: Going Public: Women's Access to Public Space in Ankara
  • 6: Women and Negotiated Spaces in Urban Everyday Life
  • 7: Across Generations: Shifting Moralities and the Cost of Freedom
  • Conclusion.