...Olivia Landry Abstract Hop-Çiki-Yaya Polisiyesi is a Turkish crime novel series by Mehmet Murat Somer that appeared between 2003 and 2004. The series is set in the trans world of Istanbul, and the hero/heroine is a gender-nonbinary sleuth. The present essay explores the paradox at the heart...

... of beautification, bodily grooming, and sociality. Defined by neighboring practices that create “networks of support” between neighbors and resident-owned shops and businesses, writes Amy Mills ( 2007 , 335), “the mahalle is the space of intimate daily life in the Turkish urban context, and narratives of and ways...

... negatively impacts the capacity of liberal feminism both to articulate inclusive analysis and politics that would address different groups of Turkish women and to relate to other feminist groups in the Middle East. Sedef Arat-Koç is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public...

...Kathryn Libal This article examines debates over Turkish women’s emancipation and women’s independent organizing in Turkey during the 1930s. It traces the troubled history of Turkey’s most prominent independent women’s organization, the Turkish Women’s Union (Türk Kadın Birliği), focusing...

...Erdağ Göknar This essay compares and contrasts Turkish author Halide Edib’s novel The Shirt of Flame (Duffield & Company, 1921) to the second volume of her memoirs, The Turkish Ordeal (The Century Company, 1928). Both texts have female protagonists and parallel plots and take place during...

...Nadje Al-Ali; Latif Tas Abstract Despite the recent outbreak of violence and conflict, peace continues to be high on the agenda of the Kurdish political movement and many progressive Turkish intellectuals and activists. Based on qualitative research we conducted in Diyarbakır, Istanbul, London...

...A. Holly Shissler “Cici Anne” was a popular advice column that first appeared in two prominent Turkish journals, Resimli Ay and Resimli Hafta , and subsequently in one of Turkey’s preeminent daily newspapers, Cumhuriyet . The columnist, Sabiha Zekeriya Sertel, was a well-known journalist...

... . New York : Cambridge University Press . Akşit Bahattin . 1993 . “ Studies in Rural Transformation in Turkey, 1950–1990 .” In Culture and Economy: Changes in Turkish Villages , edited by Stirling Paul , 187 – 200 . Huntingdon : Eothen . Delaney Carol . 1991 . The Seed...

... secularists and Islamic actors cohabit the state. Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy: Islamist Women in Turkish Politics Yeşim Arat. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. Pp. x, 150. ISBN 9780791464663. Reviewed by Roberta...

... during the 1950s and 60s. The paper also considers the popular nature of the publications that featured these writings and their significance in the framework of the changing nationalist discourse and corresponding changes in Turkish historiography during the 1950s. It shows that articles based...

...Roberta Micallef We Have No Microbes Here: Healing Practices in a Turkish Black Sea Village , Önder Sylvia Wing . Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press , 2007 . Pp. xxv, 304 . ISBN 978-0-89089-573-3 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2009 108...

... History: Parallels and Interconnections in the Early Modern Period, 1500–1800 .” Journal of Turkish Studies 9 , no. 1 : 35 – 57 . Hanley Will . 2013 . “ When Did Egyptians Stop Being Ottomans? ” In Multilevel Citizenship , edited by Maas Willem , 89 – 109 . Philadelphia...

... to Authoritarian Rule . New York : Bloomsbury . Edib Halide . 1935 . Conflict of East and West in Turkey . Delhi : Maktaba Jamia Millia Islamia . Göknar Erdağ . 2013 . “ Turkish-Islamic Feminism Confronts National Patriarchy: Halide Edib’s Divided Self .” Journal of Middle East Women’s...

... Sexuality in the Middle East: Challenges and Discourses , edited by İlkkaracan Pınar , 199 – 213 . Aldershot : Ashgate . Gürsoy Elif , and Özkan Hediye Arslan . 2014 . “ Turkish Youth’s Perception of Sexuality/‘Honor’ in Relation to Women .” Journal of Psychiatric Nursing 5...

...Gözde Emen-Gökatalay Abstract This article traces Nene Hatun’s popularity and legacy for women’s image in Turkey. The rediscovery of Nene Hatun and the political construction of her public image during the rule of the Democratic Party (DP), as an icon of anticommunist Turkish mothers, not only maps...

...Burcu Dabak Özdemir Abstract This essay analyzes how postfeminism is constructed on a visual level in the Turkish context. It uses theories of postfeminism to discuss new popular romantic comedies of Turkish cinema by comparing the new female protagonists with the women portrayed in Yeşilçam...

...Serkan Gorkemli This article focuses on the Internet as a “digital closet” in the context of Turkish lesbian and gay activism in the 1990s and early 2000s. In its analysis of media and sexual discourse, the article first discusses traditional media, such as the printing press and television. While...

...Kim Shively Kim Shively is an assistant professor of anthropology at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. Her ongoing academic projects include collecting and translating oral histories of Turkish individuals born before or during the founding of the Turkish republic, and research...

...Orit Bashkin This essay examines representations of Iraqi women in the works of poets, novelists, and public intellectuals during the Hashemite period. Defining the functions of women in modern Muslim societies, Iraqi intellectuals sought inspiration in the writings of Egyptian and Turkish writers...

...A. Holly Shissler This paper discusses the views of Turkish journalist Sabiha Zekeriya Sertel (1895–1968) on prostitution and women’s participation in the paid labor force. By examining her ideas on these issues and on women’s legal rights as they appeared in her journal, Resimli Ay, the paper...