What is it about?
An examination of legitimation strategies used by Turkish female deputies during the headscarf debate
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Examines the pluralism in women's representation and how a “women’s issue” is embedded in the broader political context, how it is deployed for political agency and how it interacts with the political convictions of female deputies.
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This article brings a fresh look at women's substantive representation by engaging with the constitutive representation literature and by focusing on the female parliamentarians' speeches in their broader political setting.
Meral Ugur-Cinar
Bilkent Universitesi
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This page is a summary of: Constitutive representation of womanhood, Journal of Language and Politics, November 2023, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.22147.ugu.
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