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

Year 2019, Volume: 25 Issue: 97, 13 - 28, 11.02.2019

Adem Sağır

https://doi.org/10.22559/folklor.833

Abstract

The fundamental argument of the present study was that the conservativefemale
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.
A distinctive characteristic of the ÂLÂ Magazine is that it attempts to make the perception of “manhood opening a space for themselves by using
political power” -a frequently constructed perception in the conservative
tradition- inconsistent with the spaces they open for themselves. According
to the present study, the conservative female image bears neoconservative and
neo-capitalistic traces while the conservative female identity tries to take itself
out of the male power within the triplet of aesthetics, admiration, and beauty.

Keywords

modernization, conservatism, Turkey, voman

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