Mainstreaming the Headscarf

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...