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Feminism in Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Sibel Erol
Sibel Erol*
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University of California, Berkeley, Department of Comparative Literature
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Feminism in Turkey has reached a new exciting dimension in the last decade with the emergence of autonomous and multifarious female voices. Duygu Asena, an editor and novelist, has much to do with paving the way for the emergence of these voices. With her controversial writings and independent lifestyle, she is an icon of Turkish feminism, the Gloria Steinem of Turkish culture. As a proponent of staunch individualism, she has not allied herself with any group or movement. But through her editorials in Kadinca (Womanly) and two controversial novels, Kadinin Adi Yok (Woman Has No Name) and its sequel Aslinda Aşk da Yok (In Reality, Love Does Not Exist Either) that insist on female equality and autonomy, she has greatly shaped public opinion that has made possible the mobilization of other feminists.

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Review Article
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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 8 , fall 1992 , pp. 109 - 120
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1992

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