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...