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Headscarf Politics in Turkey : A Postcolonial Reading

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This book questions the 'role model' status of the Turkish Republic with respect to the advancement of female agency in a secular context by using the study of women with headscarves as a case in point.

Turkey's commitment to modernization depends heavily on secularism which involves, among other things, the westernization of women's appearance.

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Palgrave Macmillan
023010665X / 9780230106659
Hardback
26/11/2010
United Kingdom
English
xvi, 196 p. : ill., ports.
22 cm