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How and why have women come to play a central role in the political project of Islamic revivalism and in the power struggles between Islamic and secular forces in Turkey? In this innovative book Ayse Saktanber rejects approaches to this issue that ask what Islam means for the position of women, or see Muslim women as the ""reverse"" or the ""dark"" side of modernity. Taking as her subject matter families who have come together to ""live Islam"" as ""conscious Muslims"" in a suburb of Ankara, she attempts instead to ""render thinkable"" the experiences of women who are not situated within the...

Writing from within the cultural landscape of modern Turkey, this book presents a writing on the everyday, providing a corrective to the often skewed perceptions of Turkish culture engendered by conventional western critiques. It focuses on the diversity of contemporary Turkish life.