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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Selda TuncerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: I.B. Tauris Weight: 0.516kg ISBN: 9781784537524ISBN 10: 1784537527 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 21 June 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction 2: Women, Nation-State and Public Space 3: The Story of the Field 4: The Herstory of the City: Women's Everyday Life in Ankara, 1950 - 1980 5: Going Public: Women's Access to Public Space in Ankara 6: Women and Negotiated Spaces in Urban Everyday Life 7: Across Generations: Shifting Moralities and the Cost of Freedom ConclusionReviews`A timely and much needed sociological study! Enriches our understanding of the sociohistorical contexts in (re)shaping public space in Turkey and contributes to the discourse on gender, modernity and public space.' - Margaret Abraham, Professor of Sociology, Hofstra University, `Based on well-informed, detailed ethnographic work, oral history methods and personal visual archives, this book tells the story of what took place in a secular-yet-Muslim context, at the heart of an arduously modernising nation-state in the capital of Turkey, Ankara.' - Ayse Saktanber, Professor of Sociology, Middle East Technical University `A timely and much needed sociological study! Enriches our understanding of the sociohistorical contexts in (re)shaping public space in Turkey and contributes to the discourse on gender, modernity and public space.’ - Margaret Abraham, Professor of Sociology, Hofstra University, `Based on well-informed, detailed ethnographic work, oral history methods and personal visual archives, this book tells the story of what took place in a secular-yet-Muslim context, at the heart of an arduously modernising nation-state in the capital of Turkey, Ankara.’ - Ayse Saktanber, Professor of Sociology, Middle East Technical University Author InformationSelda Tuncer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yuzuncu Yil University, Van, Turkey, and teaches courses on gender and sociological theory. She has worked at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, where she also completed her PhD. She has recently been a researcher on a project to improve the conditions of asylum-seeker women and children in Van, and she has published in both Turkish and English on issues relating to gender and space relations, urban culture, women's history and everyday life in the Turkish context. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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