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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 395–422.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Merve Kütük-Kuriş Abstract Turkey’s Islamic fashion market transformed during the 2010s with the entry of young, bourgeois, fashion-conscious Muslim female entrepreneurs. As designers, manufacturers, and retailers, these “Muslim fashionistas” not only gained the attention of young Muslim women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 144–147.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Christian Pond Islamist Mobilization in Turkey: A Study in Vernacular Politics , White Jenny B. . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2002 . xii + 299 pp. including chapter notes, bibliography and index. $35.00 cloth, $22.50 paperback. Copyright © 2005 Association...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 225–245.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Asli Zengin Abstract This article is about how sex, gender, and sexuality are governed in Turkey at the intersection of intimate contact and mandated encounters with medicolegal institutions and the bodies of sex/gender transgressive people. To explore this question, it brings two institutional...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Iklim Goksel Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Grounded in everyday life, the practice of male same-sex relations is neither uncommon nor a dominant trend but rather a renegotiated space for many young men in Turkey today. This unnamed practice creates...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 382–410.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Emine Rezzan Karaman Abstract This article analyzes the construction of motherhood as a form of political agency in Turkey with particular references to the Saturday Mothers and the Peace Mothers, respectively, the mothers of the disappeared and the mothers of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 244–264.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Haktan Ural; Fatma Umut Beşpınar Abstract This article examines how gay men engage with masculine respectability in urban Turkey. Our analysis of twenty-four in-depth interviews in Ankara shows that gay men’s self-presentation generally conforms to the expectations of masculine appearance...
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Kurdish Life in Contemporary Turkey: Migration, Gender, and Ethnic Identity by Anna Grabolle-Çeliker
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 114–116.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Esin Düzel Kurdish Life in Contemporary Turkey is quite timely. Currently, as peace negotiations take place between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (Partiya Karkên Kurdistan or PKK), public discussions center on human rights violations and undemocratic policies. Grabolle...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 115–117.
Published: 01 July 2007
...Ann Evans Larimore Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey , Ashman Anastasia M. Gökmen Jennifer Eaton , eds. Emeryville, CA : Seal Press , 2006 . Pp. 293. ISBN 1580051553 . Copyright © 2007 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2007...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (3): 350–353.
Published: 01 November 2015
... ) writes, women Kurdish fighters are integrated and often serve as military commanders in the “fierce fight against ISIS,” which also “poses important challenges to feminist peace theorizing.” Women in Turkey who want freedom in their personal lives, including Muslims, have a particular stake in defending...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 63–88.
Published: 01 November 2012
... the metaphor of the Internet as a digital closet as it relates to collegiate lesbian and gay activism. The conclusion reflects on the significance and functions of this media metaphor for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and transsexual agency and subjectivities in Turkey, suggesting similar venues...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 112–121.
Published: 01 March 2016
... prime minister and current president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whose blunt statements on gender issues have become a characteristic of the Turkish political landscape of the twenty-first century. Erdoğan’s comments are part of a contentious array of government discourses and policies around...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 173–174.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Banu Gökarıksel Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 On July 15, 2016, an otherwise ordinary Friday night for citizens of Turkey was disrupted by images, sounds, and situations that have, unfortunately, become less extraordinary in recent decades: a coup...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 178–180.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Salih Can Açıksöz References Açıksöz Salih Can . 2012 . “ Sacrificial Limbs of Sovereignty: Disabled Veterans, Masculinity, and Nationalist Politics in Turkey .” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 26 , no. 1 : 4 – 25 . Altınay Ayşe Gül . 2004 . The Myth of the Military...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 181–185.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Zeynep Kurtuluş Korkman References Acar Feride , and Altunok Gülbanu . 2013 . “ The ‘Politics of Intimate’ at the Intersection of Neo-liberalism and Neo-conservatism in Contemporary Turkey .” Women’s Studies International Forum 41 , no. 1 : 14 – 23 . Açıksöz Salih...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 186–188.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Begüm Başdaş References Amnesty International . 2016 . “ Turkey: Independent Monitors Must Be Allowed to Access Detainees amid Torture Allegations .” July 24 . www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/07/turkey-independent-monitors-must-be-allowed-to-access-detainees-amid-torture-allegations...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Yağmur Nuhrat Abstract This article focuses on swearing in football chants in Turkey to demonstrate that fans construct a specifically masculine notion of fairness that diverges from the universalizing ideal of fair play. I argue that the Turkish Football Federation’s (TFF) clubs’ and mainstream...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 148–150.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Zehra Arat 148 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES
The New Legal Status of Women in Turkey
Women for Women’s Human Rights (WWHR)
New Legal Status of Women in Turkey. April 2002.
Reviewed by Zehra Arat, Purchase...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 47–68.
Published: 01 March 2017
... can only be exempt from the service because of a poor medical condition or sexual orientation (i.e., being a homosexual) confirmed by a medical report. If a soldier dies in combat, his brother has a right to be held exempt from military service. Conscientious objection is not recognized in Turkey...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 189–193.
Published: 01 March 2017
... by peace. Women are against war” ( fig. 4 ). They were carrying posters drawing attention to the war crimes committed by soldiers against the Kurdish populations of southeastern Turkey—the very soldiers now arrested as coup plotters. The purple color of the banner split the red color of the square painted...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 457–461.
Published: 01 November 2021
...Sinan Goknur Muedini’s book is oriented toward international studies and policy, yielding a manuscript in which he employs a liberal rights-based framework to explore the various facets of LGBTI rights in Turkey including the overview of the current legal status of LGBTI people in the country...
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