Women and Public Space in Turkey: Gender, Modernity and the Urban Experience

ISBN-13: 9781784537524 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 320 str.

Selda Tuncer

Opis

Turkey's process of modernization developed rapidly during the second half of the 20th 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 Public Space in Turkey provides a historical understanding of women's experiences of this modernization 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 urban public space and social relations.

Spis treści

Introduction2: Women, Nation-State and Public Space 3: The Story of the Field4: The Herstory of the City: Women's Everyday Life in Ankara, 1950 - 19805: Going Public: Women's Access to Public Space in Ankara 6: Women and Negotiated Spaces in Urban Everyday Life7: Across Generations: Shifting Moralities and the Cost of FreedomConclusion

O autorze

Selda Tuncer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yuzuncu Yil University, Turkey.