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            <mods:title>Turkish Cosmo Girls, Soap Fans and Guitar 
Heroes:
Resistive Pleasures of Turkish Women Consuming and Producing 
Transnational American Popular Culture</mods:title>
          </mods:titleInfo>
          <mods:name type="personal">
            <mods:namePart>Onaran, Aslihan Tokgoz</mods:namePart>
            <mods:role>
              <mods:roleTerm type="text">creator</mods:roleTerm>
            </mods:role>
          </mods:name>
          <mods:originInfo>
            <mods:copyrightDate>2010</mods:copyrightDate>
          </mods:originInfo>
          <mods:physicalDescription>
            <mods:extent>xii, 316 p.</mods:extent>
            <mods:digitalOrigin>born digital</mods:digitalOrigin>
          </mods:physicalDescription>
          <mods:note>Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2010)</mods:note>
          <mods:name type="personal">
            <mods:namePart>Smulyan, Susan</mods:namePart>
            <mods:role>
              <mods:roleTerm type="text">Director</mods:roleTerm>
            </mods:role>
          </mods:name>
          <mods:name type="personal">
            <mods:namePart>Joyrich, Lynne</mods:namePart>
            <mods:role>
              <mods:roleTerm type="text">Reader</mods:roleTerm>
            </mods:role>
          </mods:name>
          <mods:name type="personal">
            <mods:namePart>Rosen, Philip</mods:namePart>
            <mods:role>
              <mods:roleTerm type="text">Reader</mods:roleTerm>
            </mods:role>
          </mods:name>
          <mods:name type="corporate">
            <mods:namePart>Brown University. American 
Civilization</mods:namePart>
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              <mods:roleTerm type="text">sponsor</mods:roleTerm>
            </mods:role>
          </mods:name>
          <mods:genre authority="aat">theses</mods:genre>
          <mods: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. </mods:abstract>
          <mods:subject>
            <mods:topic>Popular culture studies</mods:topic>
          </mods:subject>
          <mods:subject>
            <mods:topic>media ethnography</mods:topic>
          </mods:subject>
          <mods:subject>
            <mods:topic>transnational feminism</mods:topic>
          </mods:subject>
          <mods:subject>
            <mods:topic>localization</mods:topic>
          </mods:subject>
          <mods:subject>
            <mods:topic>Turkish women</mods:topic>
          </mods:subject>
          <mods:subject authority="FAST" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/943532"><mods:topic>Globalization</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:recordInfo>
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            <mods:recordCreationDate encoding="iso8601">20110926</mods:recordCreationDate>
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        <mods:language><mods:languageTerm type="code" authority="iso639-2b">eng</mods:languageTerm><mods:languageTerm type="text">English</mods:languageTerm></mods:language><mods:identifier type="doi">10.7301/Z0K935SZ</mods:identifier><mods:accessCondition type="rights statement" xlink:href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</mods:accessCondition><mods:accessCondition type="restriction on access">Collection is open for research.</mods:accessCondition><mods:typeOfResource authority="primo">dissertations</mods:typeOfResource></mods:mods>