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Women Between Modernity, Islam and Orientalism A Case Study: The Headscarf Dilemma in Turkey

Demirer, Derya Keskin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392049073

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2003, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.
This project looks into the concepts of Orientalism, Modernity, and Islamic Revivalism, and considers the debate on the “new veiling” of women in Turkey as the intersection of them. It explores modernity and its applications both in the East and in the West in terms of the woman question. It examines the orientalist view of the Middle Eastern cultures, and its applications for the Muslim women in Western scholarship, and feminist scholarship. Orientalism has not been limited to the West, in fact, internal Orientalism emerged in the Middle East through the adoption of Western modernization, thus creating tensions in Middle Eastern cultures, especially in terms of religion and women’s issues. While some states embraced modernity and imposed it on their people, some others seem to have rejected it altogether. Nevertheless, modernity has existed everywhere and has affected a vast number of people in the Middle East one way or another and to different extents. Young, educated Islamist women of the last two decades who claimed their rights in the public realm have become the salient symbols of the debates on Islam and modernity in Turkey, and perhaps elsewhere.
Margaret A. Mills (Advisor)
Parvaneh Pourshariati (Committee Member)
79 p.
Near Eastern Studies

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  • Demirer, D. K. (2003). Women Between Modernity, Islam and Orientalism A Case Study: The Headscarf Dilemma in Turkey [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392049073

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Demirer, Derya. Women Between Modernity, Islam and Orientalism A Case Study: The Headscarf Dilemma in Turkey. 2003. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392049073.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Demirer, Derya. "Women Between Modernity, Islam and Orientalism A Case Study: The Headscarf Dilemma in Turkey." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392049073

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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