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Writing from within the cultural landscape of modern Turkey, 'Fragments of Culture' presents exciting new writing on the everyday, providing a corrective to the often skewed perceptions of Turkish culture engendered by conventional western critiques. From adjustments to religious identity as the Islamic veil becomes marketed as a fashion item to the media explosion of interest in Turkish transsexual lifestyle to the strained cross-class relations between comfortably-off apartment tenants and their more humble doorkeepers,'Fragments of Culture' focuses on the diversity of contemporary Turkish l

Résumé La Turquie est souvent mise en exergue comme le seul pays à majorité musulmane ayant une Constitution laïque et un Code civil n'obéissant pas à la charia, et le mouvement des femmes y a remporté d'importantes victoires en matière de réformes juridiques au début des années 2000. On observe toutefois un fossé croissant entre droits formels et droits réels suite à l'écrasante victoire électorale de l' akp en 2007. Au vu des divisions qui traversent les rangs féministes — sur la question du voile, notamment — l'article s'interroge sur la validité de ces acquis. 1

Following a period of rapid political change, both globally and in relation to the Middle East and South Asia, this collection sets new terms of for an analysis of the intersections between global, state, non-state and popular actors and their contradictory effects on the politics of gender.