Il ruolo delle donne nella società kemalista

This paper will examine the role women played within the vast system of reforms carried out by Mustafa Kemal, during the very first Republic. Gender issues, fundamental rights - voting, open access to education and the ensuing way in the work world - were but a few of the main pillars of the Kemalist reforms. The Kemalist ideology built a new paradigm of liberated woman, as well as devising a new model of the nation. The spillover on a very traditional Islamic society was pretty much high; thus, the aim of the present study is to explain the dynamics that led - earlier than elsewhere - the Turkish female world to become the global player of its time. [Publisher's Text].