Women and Public Space in Turkey

Selda Tuncer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Yuzuncu Yil University, Van, Turkey, and teaches courses on gender and sociological theory. She has worked at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, where she also completed her PhD. She has recently been a researcher on a project to improve the conditions of asylum-seeker women and children in Van, and she has published in both Turkish and English on issues relating to gender and space relations, urban culture, women's history and everyday life in the Turkish context.

• Introduction2: Women, Nation-State and Public Space 3: The Story of the Field4: The Herstory of the City: Women’s Everyday Life in Ankara, 1950 – 19805: Going Public: Women’s Access to Public Space in Ankara 6: Women and Negotiated Spaces in Urban Everyday Life7: Across Generations: Shifting Moralities and the Cost of FreedomConclusion

`A timely and much needed sociological study! Enriches our understanding of the sociohistorical contexts in (re)shaping public space in Turkey and contributes to the discourse on gender, modernity and public space.’ - Margaret Abraham, Professor of Sociology, Hofstra University, `Based on well-informed, detailed ethnographic work, oral history methods and personal visual archives, this book tells the story of what took place in a secular-yet-Muslim context, at the heart of an arduously modernising nation-state in the capital of Turkey, Ankara.’ - Ayse Saktanber, Professor of Sociology, Middle East Technical University