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dc.contributor.authorO'Neil, Mary Lou
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-14T15:15:48Z
dc.date.available2021-02-14T15:15:48Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.issn1362-704Xen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/3922
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.2752/175174110X12544983515231
dc.description.abstractAs Turkey set its sights on modernization and Westernization in the early decades of the twentieth century, clothing reform took center stage. The state used clothing as a constitutive element in its establishment and continues to legislate appearance as a means to maintain its power and create a model public citizen that will support it. Today there exists an extensive regulatory regime on clothing and appearance in the public sphere, which induces those governed by it to dress in a "modern" fashion. An examination of these regulations reveals the deeply politicized nature of clothing in Turkey which is guided by the assumption that you are what you wear. While choice of clothing and appearance is neither entirely free nor fully prescribed, dress codes do further restrict already limited choices. Dress codes undermine the relationship thought to exist between individual belief and appearance. Dress codes, in the case of Turkey, are dictated by the state; therefore, the appearance of students and state employees does not necessarily represent their belief but that of the state. The Turkish state, through the use of dress codes, continues to try and produce "modern" citizens, meaning Western and secular.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBerg Publen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectDressen_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.subjectLawen_US
dc.subjectPublic citizenen_US
dc.titleYou Are What You Wear: Clothing/Appearance Laws and the Construction of the Public Citizen in Turkeyen_US
dc.typearticleen_US
dc.identifier.startpage65en_US
dc.identifier.endpage81en_US
dc.relation.journalFashion Theory-The Journal of Dress Body & Cultureen_US
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.volume14en_US
dc.departmentRektörlük, Rektörlüğe Bağlı Birimler, Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Kadın Çalışmalarıen_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000274844100004en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.2752/175174110X12544983515231en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-77953525696en_US
dc.institutionauthorO'Neil, Mary Louen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US


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