Women in modern Turkish society

A necessary correction / Meral Akkent -- Women in Turkey in the 1980s / Şirin Tekeli -- Fashion and women's clothing in the satirical press of Istanbul at the end of the 19th century / Nora Şeni -- Women and Islam in Turkey / Feride Acar -- Feminism and Islam / Yeşin Arat -- The status and changing forms of women's labour in the urban economy / F. Yildiz Ecevit -- Changes in women's activities both inside and outside the home / Ferhunde Özbay -- Towards an understanding of gender hierarchy in Turkey / Günseli Berik -- Women and education in Turkey / Fatma Gök -- Rural women and modernization in Southeastern Anatalia / Yakin Ertürk -- Women in the media in Turkey / Ayşe Saktanber -- Towards a conceptualization of marital power dynamics / Hale Cihan Bolak -- Friend or foe? / Nükhet Sirman -- Gender roles and female strategies among the nomadic and semi-nomadic Kurdish tribes of Turkey / Lale Yalçin-Heckmann -- Women's participation in politics in Turkey / Ayşe Güneş-Ayata -- Has anything changed in the outlook of the Turkish Left on women? / Fatmagül Berktay -- Comparative observations on feminism and the nation-building process / Yasemin Nuhoglu-Soysal -- A comparison of violent and non-violent families / Sahika Yüksel -- Women and their sexual problems in Turkey / Arşalus Kayir -- Patterns of patriarchy: notes for an analysis of male dominance in Turkish society / Deniz Kandiyati..

Includes bibliographical references (notes at the end of each chapter) and index..