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Cover -- About the Author -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Public Discourse: Republican Capital and Women -- 2. The Public Sphere, Mass Media, and Talk Shows -- 3. ""Woman's Voice'' as Text: Stories and Structures Underneath -- 4. The Audience: Watching Woman's Voice -- 5. Behind the Cameras: Production of Woman's Voice -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Respondents -- Appendix 2 Media Professionals and Feminist Activists -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

This article examines Turkish television's "woman's voice" talk-show format, finding that it opens up a forum where women of rural backgrounds, who were formerly invisible in the Turkish public sphere, are able to voice firsthand the injustices they face in their family lives. Audience reception analysis of woman's voice programs reveals that whereas urban viewers reject the shows as vulgar and unimportant, rural-urban migrants celebrate the programs as indicative of women's status and thus potentially political. The article investigates the underlying causes of this difference. It argues that viewers attempt to negotiate their class position through cultural consumption, ultimately keeping the women's rights issues that woman's voice programs raise off the political agenda.

This study discusses Habermas's notions of 'public sphere' and 'power', and suggests a novel approach by complementing Habermas's limited take on the 'political' with Bourdieu's notion of 'symbolic power'. To this end, 'cultural citizenship' is used as a helpful concept. The study draws on the analysis of a Turkish talk show format 'woman's voice' (WV) and its audience. It is proposed that viewing WV should be considered a political activity. An analysis of women's first-hand narrations of the domestic and symbolic violence in their lives reveals that many women continue to live under the patriarchal authority of the 'honour code' and the Turkish ruling elite have until recently neglected the needs of these women. WV provides a sphere where the needs and problems of these women are discussed for the first time in Turkish broadcasting history. It is shown with examples from field research that WV may potentially create subversive subject-positions among the disadvantaged groups of women, such as rural-urban migrants.