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Book SynopsisEsra Özcan is Professor of Practice in the Department of Communication at Tulane University, New Orleans. She has published in various books and journals including
Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research and
Introduction to Women's Studies: A Reader as well as the
European Journal of Communication;
Feminist Media Studies; and
Popular Communication. She received her PhD in Communication Studies from Jacobs University Bremen in Germany.
Trade ReviewMainstreaming the Headscarf is a theoretically engaging book rich with in-depth examples and analyses of Turkish media and proposing new ways to break right-wing conservative hegemonic media rule by authoritarian governments. Ozcan does this by carefully avoiding binaries like secular versus Islamist in her discussion throughout the book. It is a rich book, which advocates new methods to counter hate media by AKP government through first-hand personal insights and anecdotes while making theoretically rich propositions. -- Murat Akser, European Journal of Communication
Özcan’s observation about the closing of the coalitional space in the women’s movement begs many productive questions for future research. * European Journal of Women’s Studies *
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Old Versus New Turkey Chapter 2: Headscarf as a Contested Terrain in Turkish Media and Politics Chapter 3: Transformations of the Representations of the Headscarf in Religious and Secular Newspapers Chapter 4: The Rise of the Conservative Female Journalist and the Mainstreaming of the Headscarf Chapter 5: Loss of Sisterhood: Challenges for the Progressive Feminist Movement in Turkey Chapter 6: Conclusion - Towards a New Gender Equilibrium
