Headscarf Politics in Turkey: A Postcolonial Reading

By Merve Safa Kavakci-Islam and M. Kavakci Islam

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023010665X
• ISBN13: 9780230106659
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"