Men and Woman

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…were mostly a heterogeneous group of middle-aged, middle-class professionals who were influenced by one another as they positioned and defined themselves in relation to one another. A fundamental cleavage among the women of this period was between secular and Islamist women. Over time, both groups were separated into numerous other divisions. Within the secular camp. the most prominent division grew between the women who called themselves radical feminists and those who considered themselves Kemalist feminists