Speaking of Women? Exploring Violence against Women through Political Discourses: A Case Study of Headscarf Debates in Turkey
This paper explores the production of violence against women through political discourses in Turkey. Since the foundation of the Republic (1923), women’s bodies have been on the agenda as the markers of secular Turkish modernity. With the rise of political Islam as of the 1970s, the image of the hea...
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| Language: | English |
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Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
2012-06-01
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| Series: | e-cadernos ces |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/eces/1009 |