(Paperback)

Writing from within the cultural landscape of modern Turkey, this book presents a writing on the everyday, providing a corrective to the often skewed perceptions of Turkish culture engendered by conventional western critiques. It focuses on the diversity of contemporary Turkish life.

(Hardback)

How and why have women come to play a central role in the political project of Islamic revivalism and in the power struggles between Islamic and secular forces in Turkey In this book Ayse Saktanber asks what Islam means for the position of women.