Becoming The “Other” as a Muslim in Turkey

Turkish Women vs. Islamist Women

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6093757
AutoresAyşe Saktanber (Middle East Technical University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1994
Volumen11
Páginas99-134
Fecha de publicación1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNew Perspectives on Turkey (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0896-6346 • E-ISSN: 1305-3299
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s089663460000100x
OpenAlexW2258766831
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas31
Referencias 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

Immigration · Islam · Nationality · Political science · Politics · Reactionary · Sociology · Turkish · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society