Women and Public Space in Turkey : Gender, Modernity and the Urban Experience.

Cover -- About the author -- Title -- Copyrights -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Women, Nation-State and Public Space -- Beyond the Great Divide: Reconsidering the Public and Private Realms -- Women in the City: Experiencing Urban Public Space -- Public Space in Non-Western Contexts: Gender, State and Culture -- Women's Place in the Public Realm: The Never-Ending Paradox of Turkish Modernity -- 3. The Story of the Field -- Traditional Middle-Class Neighbourhoods of Ankara -- Across Generations, between Mothers and Daughters -- In Search of Women's Public Space: Challenging Questions, Critical Encounters -- Family Photographs as Visual Encounters between Women and Place -- 4. The Herstory of the City: Women's Everyday Life in Ankara, 1950-1980 -- Changing the Capital, Changing Cultures of Public Space -- Women's Everyday Public Spaces in Ankara -- 5. Going Public: Women's Access to Public Space in Ankara -- Parameters of Dependency: Never Alone in Public! -- Avoiding Women's Encounters with Men: Modalities of Sex Segregation -- Before It Gets Dark: Time Constraints on Women -- 6. Women and Negotiated Spaces in Urban Everyday Life -- 'I have always been domestic': Home as a Woman's Central Place -- Neighbourhood: Pros and Cons of Living in a Mahalle -- Breaking the Familial Ties and Expansion of Social Networks -- 7. Across Generations: Shifting Moralities and the Cost of Freedom -- The Morality of Obedience: 'Our parents said so' -- Shifting Codes of Behaviour: 'Never without a lie!' -- Going Out as a Field of Contest and Struggle -- Domestic Work as a Compromise for Public Space -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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