Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey

State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic

Sevgi Adak

• Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9780755635061
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780755635047
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

The veiling and unveiling of women have been controversial issues in Turkey since the late-Ottoman period. It was with the advent of local campaigns against certain veils in the 1930s, however, that women's dress turned into an issue of national mobilisation in which gender norms would be redefined. In this comprehensive analysis of the anti-veiling campaigns in interwar Turkey, Sevgi Adak casts light onto the historical context within which the meanings of veiling and unveiling in Turkey were formed. By shifting the focus from the high politics of the elite to the implementation of state policies, the book situates the anti-veiling campaigns as a space where the Kemalist reforms were negotiated, compromised and resisted by societal actors. Using previously unpublished archival material, Adak reveals the intricacies of the Kemalist modernisation process and provides a nuanced reading of the gender order established in the early republic by looking at the various ways women responded to the anti-veiling campaigns. A major contribution to the literature on the social history of modern Turkey, the book provides a complex analysis of these campaigns which goes beyond a simple binary between liberation and oppression.

INDEX

aba here

Abdülhamid II here, here

Abdullah Cevdet here

Abdurrahman Nesib Efendi (Şeyhülislam) here

Abrahamian, Ervand here

activism

feminist here

political here–here

women’s here–here, here

Adana here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

Aegean here, here

Afghanistan here, here–here, here–here

Afyon here, here, here, here, here, here

agency here–here, here, here, here, here, here

of societal actors here, here

of subaltern classes here

of women here–here, here, here, here, here

Ahmet III here

Akalın, Ahmet here

Akçaabat here, here

Akkent, Meral here

Akseki here, here

Akşehir here, here

Aktaş, Cihan here

Alap, Cevat here

Albania here, here–here, here

Civil Code here

dress code for men here

similarities between Iran, Turkey and here–here

Algeria here

Alp, Tekin, Kemalizm here

King Amanullah Khan here

Anadolu Osmanlı İhtilal Komitesi (Ottoman Revolutionary Committee of Anatolia) here

Anatolia

Anatolian cities here, here, here, here, here

Anatolian women here, here, here–here

Eastern Anatolia here

Western Anatolia here, here

Anbara Salam (Khalidi) here

Ankara here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here–here, here–here, here

British Embassy in here

central elite in here...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• The Un/Veiling Issue: From the Late Ottoman Empire to the Republic
• Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the 1930S: The Main Wave
• The Local Elite, Social Opposition and Resistance
• Women, the Kemalist ‘Project’ and The Anti-Veiling Campaigns
• The Turkish Case in the Wider Muslim Context
• Conclusions
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index
• Imprint