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Gender and National Fantasy: Early Turkish Radio Drama

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Meltem Ahıska
Meltem Ahıska*
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Department of Sociology, Boǧaziçi University
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Women figure centrally in representations of modernity and of nations. This has caught the attention of researchers both in the West and in the context of “Third World” nationalisms. Yuval-Davis states: ”[I]t is women –not just (?) the bureaucracy and intelligentsia—who reproduce nations, biologically, culturally and symbolically” (1997, p. 2). However, an analysis of “women” as the subjects of the nation differs from a perspective that dwells on the representations of women produced by a (mostly) male elite. Jordanova argues that the Enlightenment in the West was a set of mental and practical activities of the male elite “who gained influence because of their ideas and ‘knowledge’” (1995, p. 64), and whose concern was “to establish the validity of their vision of the world” (p. 64). She shows convincingly that these activities were “sexual” in nature.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 22 , Spring 2000 , pp. 25 - 60
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 2000

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