...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...

...Hande Güzel Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Sexuality is a taboo topic in Turkish movies as (auto)censorship has become standard following heightened state control of the film industry, especially since the early 2000s (Kuyas 2017 ), 1 which...

...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...

... in the last decades, scholarship on the comparative history of feminism in the Middle East has been limited. 3 The scholarly literatures on women’s history in the Ottoman-Turkish milieu and in the Arab world have so far been segregated from each other. 4 Much of the scholarship on Ottoman and Turkish...

... of Turkish influence within it at the Arabs’ expense. 1 The above excerpt is from a 1917 intelligence report commissioned by the British Colonial Government’s Department of Information. The report explores pan-Turanianism, a political movement to bring the world’s Turkic and Turkish-speaking peoples...

...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...

.... Lanham, MD : Lexington , 2013 . 191 pages. isbn 9780739175620 Shaping Gender Policy in Turkey: Grassroots Women Activists, the European Union, and the Turkish State . Marshall Gül Aldıkaçtı . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2013 . 173 pages. isbn 9781438447711...

...Roberta Micallef Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy: Islamist Women in Turkish Politics , Arat Yeşim . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2005 . Pp. x, 150 . ISBN 9780791464663 . Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008...

... 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...

... of intimate bodily care have become the same around the globe. Intimacy can be translated into Turkish using the concepts of samimiyet and mahremiyet , with each term touching on different semantic fields. While samimiyet describes the quality of a relationship and implies a sense of integrity...

... 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...

...Serpil Atamaz [email protected] Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era . Özge Baykan Calafato . London : Tauris , 2022 . xii + 241 pages. isbn 9780755643271 . Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s...

...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...

... the state’s stratified reproductive policies, which have historically promoted a Turkish majority at the expense of non-Turkish lives. In May 2012, in the closing remarks at the International Conference on Population and Development in Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, then the prime minister, unexpectedly...

...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...