Article: FORMATION OF GENDER IDENTITIES IN REPUBLICAN TURKEY AND WOMEN'S NARRATIVES AS TRANSMITTERS OF 'HERSTORY' OF MODERNIZATION.

Writing history in Turkey has always been problematical because of the role assigned to officiat history writing in the construction of the nation-state after Turkey emerged as a young Republic out of a nationalist struggle in 1923. Women's history has also been written within such an ideological perspective for a long time, telling about the benefits of the state-initiated reforms related to women and the mobilization of women within the nation-building project. Women have been depicted as thankful to the Republic by dedicated 'daughters of the Republic' almost assigned to praise the new women representing Turkish nation. (Inan, 1969; Taskiran, 1976)

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