Ethnographic Discourses on Women and Islam in Turkey: A Crititcal Reading

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Abstract

This book provides a meta-reading of how ethnographic discourses on women and Islam in Turkey have changed since their emergence in 1983. It analyses the published ethnographic works in three discursive periods and shows that paradigm shifts in social sciences, processes of neo-liberal globalization and globalization of Islamism as well as political, social, cultural and economic transformations at the local level shape these periods. As an exceptional example of modernization in the Middle East and the post-imperial states in South-East Europe, Turkey has been experiencing tensions between Islamic beliefs and practices and Westernization and secularization processes. Countless aspects of Muslim women’s lives appear as symbols and indicators in this society like in many other Muslim majority societies and to scholars of gender and women’s studies in discussing the faith-based patriarchy. Thus, this book exhibits the necessity of developing a critical perspective on ethnographic representations of Muslim women in Turkey.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan, Springer
Number of pages305
ISBN (Print)978-3-031-50877-6
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-031-50875-2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2024
SeriesModernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
ISSN2523-7985

Note re. dissertation

The book is a revised and updated version of the author's Ph.D thesis titled "Changing Discourse on Women and Islam in Turkey in Ethnographic Studies" submitted to the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Middle East Technical University in 2016.

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Turkish Studies
  • women and Islam
  • power and discourse
  • Ethnography
  • Orientalism

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