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Zusatztext Özcan’s observation about the closing of the coalitional space in the women’s movement begs many productive questions for future research. Informationen zum Autor Esra Ozcan is Professor of Practice in the Department of Communication at Tulane University, New Orleans. She has published in various books and journals including Introduction to Women's Studies: A Reader and Feminist Approaches to Media Theory as well as the European Journal of Communication ; Feminist Media Studies; and Popular Communication. She received her PhD in Communication Studies at Jacobs University Bremen in Germany. Zusammenfassung With the rise to power of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the early 2000s in Turkey, the headscarf that used be looked down upon by the secular middle and upper classes moved to the mainstream. It has since become a symbol of desirable womanhood. This development has pushed Turkey’s secular feminists, who had been critical of the headscarf ban, to the margins. This book is the first to trace this new phase of conservative gender politics by examining the images of women’s headscarves across secular and Islamic news media. Based on the analysis of photographs and the columns of conservative women journalists, the book sheds light on how the AKP is transforming the image of womanhood. It also identifies the rise of the conservative female journalist as an important phenomenon in the country. Esra Özcan problematizes designators such as “Islamist women” or “Islamic feminists” and instead aims to understand these women in terms of their commitment to right-wing activism and politics, which has so far been ignored. An original contribution to feminist scholarship on Muslim women, this book draws on the unique perspectives of Visual Culture and Communication Studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures and Tables Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction Chapter 1: Old Versus New TurkeyChapter 2: Headscarf as a Contested Terrain in Turkish Media and PoliticsChapter 3: Transformations of the Representations of the Headscarf in Religious and Secular NewspapersChapter 4: The Rise of the Conservative Female Journalist and the Mainstreaming of the HeadscarfChapter 5: Loss of Sisterhood: Challenges for the Progressive Feminist Movement in TurkeyChapter 6: Conclusion - Towards a New Gender Equilibrium...
