Becoming The “Other” as a Muslim in Turkey

Turkish Women vs. Islamist Women

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6093757
AutoresAyşe Saktanber (Middle East Technical University, autor correspondente)
Ano1994
Volume11
Páginas99-134
Data de publicação1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNew Perspectives on Turkey (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0896-6346 • E-ISSN: 1305-3299
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s089663460000100x
OpenAlexW2258766831
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas31
Referências citadas16

The covering of women has become the mark of Islam's new visibility in urban Turkey since the 1980s. Women wearing long, loose overcoats and headscarves tightly framing their faces and covering their necks and bosoms are now a familiar part of the urban scene, as well as of university campuses. They are usually referred to asİslamci(Islamist) women, sometimes also asdinci(religionist),gerici(regressive),irticacı(reactionary),kara peçeli(black veiled)or türbanlı(turbaned). Thus in the lexicon of Turkish identity, these women constitute a group defined through oppositional terms, similar to such ephitets as “leftist” women and “femininist” women. The words “Kemalist” and/or “Atatürkist” women have concurrently gained new political significance in denoting women (often professional elites) who, as against the so-called Islamist women, proclaim their allegience to Atatürk andhisprinciples, i.e. speak from a pro-western, pro-state, secular-nationalistic and gender egalitarian position

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