Headscarf Politics in Turkey: A Postcolonial Reading

by JohnL.Esposito (Author), Lord Eric Avebury (Foreword)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $113.81

  This book questions the 'role model' status of the Turkish Republic with respect to the advancement of female agency in a secular context by using the study of women with headscarves as a case in point. Turkey's commitment to modernization depends heavily on secularism which involves, among other things, the westernization of women's appearance.