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Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Turkey (Hardcover, New edition)
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Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Turkey (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, 125
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Turkey is often visualized as a modern nation-state having a
perfect balance of Eastern and Western cultural mores and
traditions within dominant ideological constructions and
representations, but on closer inspection, one can detect conflicts
and contradictions within various texts - particularly in regards
to depictions of gender and sexual identity. Upon its foundation as
a nation, Turkey embarked on a state-centered, elite-driven path
toward modernization and Westernization while also seeking to
produce a monolithic culture. At the time, it was widely believed
that Turkey could not rank among modern, Western countries without
the emancipation of women. As a result of the founding of the
Republic and Turkey's quest for a unified culture, women were
granted a number of legal rights and enjoined to take up their
place in the public sphere. In recent years, this model of
state-centered secular modernity and state feminism has come under
intense scrutiny and criticism as Islamists, Kurds, feminists, and
others demand their claims for recognition and force a rethinking
of current understandings of Turkish identity and subjectivity,
specifically regarding gender and the place and role of women in
society. These controversies, contradictions, and ambiguities are
reflected in women's lives and are waged by various factions over
women's bodies within ideological constructions of identity and
this study seeks to examine these disjunctures and contradictions
as reflected in modern Turkish literature and culture. Negotiating
Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Turkey is an essential tool
for scholars and students of Middle Eastern literature, Turkish
literature and culture, gender and sexuality studies, modern and
postmodern literature, postcolonial and feminist literature and
studies, cultural studies, religious studies, and women's studies
and seeks to place a microscopic view on a marginalized and
embattled group.
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