This collection of essays seeks to combat efforts to push Turkish women into a particular prototype by exposing myths and clarifying the complexities which are connected to them. It encompasses the fields of political science, economics, business, ethnography, history and literature.

This is an interdisciplinary feminist reader about women in modern Turkish society put together by Turkish women scholars. The contributors demonstrate the problems inherent in existing social and economic institutions, the failed promises of education and development programmes, and the media's continuing dissemination of traditional sexual stereotypes. They consider power relationships within families and explore women's political participation.