The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling

by Nilüfer Göle

Book Overview

This book by prominent Turkish scholar Nil?fer G?le examines the complex relationships among modernity, religion, and gender relations in the Middle East. Her focus is on the factors that influence young women pursuing university educations in Turkey to adopt seemingly fundamentalist Islamist traditions, such as veiling, and the complex web of meanings attributed to these gender-separating practices. Veiling, a politicized practice that conceptually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472066307
• ISBN13: 9780472066308
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"