Citation

Maksudyan N. Womens Hist. Rev. 2015; 24(6): 861-880.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/09612025.2014.994858

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article examines the growing concern about female suicide in early republican Turkey. It shows that debates about modernisation intersected in various and complex ways with the scientific and more popular discourse about female suicide. Informed by the work of, amongst others, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood and Rosi Braidotti, it argues that the women who committed suicide exerted an agency which the new regime denied them and that it was largely for this reason that female suicide became such a public issue in Turkey in the 1920s and 1930s. © 2015 Taylor & Francis.

Language: en