- Title Information
- Title
- Turkish Cosmo Girls, Soap Fans and Guitar
Heroes:
Resistive Pleasures of Turkish Women Consuming and Producing
Transnational American Popular Culture
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Onaran, Aslihan Tokgoz
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Text
- creator
- Origin Information
- Copyright Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- Extent
- xii, 316 p.
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- born digital
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- Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2010)
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Smulyan, Susan
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Text
- Director
- Name:
Personal
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- Joyrich, Lynne
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Text
- Reader
- Name:
Personal
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- Rosen, Philip
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Text
- Reader
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Brown University. American
Civilization
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Text
- sponsor
- Genre (aat)
- theses
- Abstract
- This dissertation investigates Turkish
redefinitions of traditional gender norms through the
re-contextualizations of transnational American culture in the period
between 1988 and 2009. Through an interdisciplinary analysis of three
mass cultural genres (originally imported and yet localized in their
Turkish actualizations)--namely, American daytime television soap
operas, the Turkish Cosmopolitan magazine, and Turkish rock music--as
well as their producers and audiences, I illustrate culturally specific
female agency as well as the processes and strategies of localization in
the Turkish setting. Employing a methodology that combines audience and
production ethnographies, textual and historical analyses as well as
transnational feminist media theory, I argue that cultural producers'
diverse appropriations of these media for their competing views of
female empowerment; female audiences' varying uses and readings of these
texts; and the actualization of a powerful female homosociality, furnish
the structural conditions under which alternative forms of meaning can
gain a public momentum and challenge traditional Turkish norms of gender
and female sexuality. Turkish women's engagement with transnational
American culture exhibits a transgressive potential, particularly in
constructing and re-imagining counterpatriarchal knowledge as well as in
challenging the official citizenship regime that attempts to control the
female body.
Turkish women's resistive pleasures from re-coding and decoding
once-American genres reveal a multifaceted process, one that embodies
the discursive struggle in contemporary Turkey between Westernization
and tradition as well as that between globalization and local
resistance. This study illuminates this complex relationship between
different demographics of contemporary Turkish women and American
cultural imports. It approaches localized American culture as a dynamic
space where capitalist patriarchal hegemonies and various modes of
female resistances can and, most of the time, do co-exist.
Overall, this dissertation aims to deconstruct Turkish women's lived
experiences of transnational media and local patriarchies by identifying
the counterhegemonic qualities of women's pleasures that are informed by
the multiple female voices, visions, re-articulations and decodings of
womanhood and modernity that reside in those experiences, yet remain
unexplored.
- Subject
- Topic
- Popular culture studies
- Subject
- Topic
- media ethnography
- Subject
- Topic
- transnational feminism
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- Topic
- localization
- Subject
- Topic
- Turkish women
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/943532")
- Topic
- Globalization
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- RPB
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- 20110926
- Language
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- eng
- Language Term:
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- English
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.7301/Z0K935SZ
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- dissertations