Defining and living out the interior: the ‘modern’ apartment and the ‘urban’ housewife in Turkey during the 1950s and 1960s

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dc.citation.epage722en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber6en_US
dc.citation.spage703en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber16en_US
dc.contributor.authorGürel, M. Ö.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-24T15:46:27Z
dc.date.available2019-01-24T15:46:27Z
dc.date.issued2009-12en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Interior Architecture and Environmental Designen_US
dc.description.abstractThis study investigates the interaction of women’s gendered identities and performances in the modern middle strata with the new apartment, while complicating the boundary between the legitimizing discourses of modern architecture and ideas around femininity, during the 1950s and 1960s in Turkey. It conceptualizes domestic premises as the inhabitant’s space, where gender roles are formed and performed. Drawing on research concerning the postwar construction of women’s identities and diverse ideas of feminine space in a global context, I examine how the apartment was a place for women, who were conceptualized as Western and happy housewives amid Cold War geopolitics. The study ponders ways in which women negotiated/subverted conflicting expectations of the modern housewife. The apartment mediated powerful discourses on structures of patriarchy and identities, while simultaneously allowing women to define and live out the modern domicile as active agents. It embodied the intermediate space between the concepts of modern and traditional, Western and non-Western, urban and rural, and masculine and feminine.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09663690903279153en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1360-0524
dc.identifier.issn0966-369X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/48318
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1080/09663690903279153en_US
dc.source.titleGender, Place and Cultureen_US
dc.subjectHousewifeen_US
dc.subjectDomestic Spaceen_US
dc.subjectPerformativityen_US
dc.subjectModern Architectureen_US
dc.subjectApartmenten_US
dc.subjectTurkeyen_US
dc.titleDefining and living out the interior: the ‘modern’ apartment and the ‘urban’ housewife in Turkey during the 1950s and 1960sen_US
dc.title.alternativeDefinir y vivir fuera del interior: el departamento ‘moderno’ y el ama de casa ‘urbana’ en Turquía durante las décadas de 1950 y 1960en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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