Crème De La Crème Versus Âliyy’ul Âlâ: The Modernization Process of Conservative
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Crème De La Crème Versus Âliyy’ul Âlâ: The Modernization Process of Conservative Female Identity
Crème De La Crème Versus Âliyy’ul Âlâ: The Modernization Process of Conservative Female Identity

Author(s): Adem Sağır
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Aesthetics, Evaluation research, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi
Keywords: modernization; conservatism; Turkey; woman; ÂLÂ magazine;

Summary/Abstract: The fundamental argument of the present study was that the conservative female identity was based on the re-generation of body within a modern and capitalistic context. The concept of body was focused on because it referred to a context included in interest of power, and it could be reconstructed forms again and again in an observable manner. The present study examined the “ÂL” Magazine was published a year ago year. The main reason for the selection of the “ÂL” Magazine was that it reflected the modernization process of the conservative female identity. In addition, the present study intended to demonstrate how the Magazine represented the stage which the conservative female identity had reached in participating in the public life after the 1980s.

  • Issue Year: 25/2019
  • Issue No: 97
  • Page Range: 13-28
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English