CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Nasser, Sara |
|---|---|
| Title | Betwixt and Between Liberalism and Islam: The Creation of a Hybrid Moral Language as a Strategy of Religious Resistance to Competing Hegemonic Femininities in Turkey |
| Summary | This thesis analyzes the motivations of young women who studied abroad to escape the headscarf ban in Turkish universities. Through semi-structured interviews of twelve Turkish women impacted by the ban, the study finds that these women constructed a hybrid moral language that justifies their agency to wear the headscarf, by articulating a religious resistance to competing hegemonic notions of Turkish femininity found in the intersection of conservative Islamic thought and liberal secularism. For some of the women, the consequence of this religious resistance meant forgoing a limited kind of “happiness” defined by the conventions of marriage, domestic partnership and motherhood, and a possible “unhappiness” that opens up new subjectivities and lifestyles for pious Turkish women. |
| Supervisor | Geva, Dorit; Naumescu, Vlad |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/nasser_sara.pdf |
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