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The bikini: a feminist issue »

Posted by: berkeley 2 years, 5 months ago

Ataturk did not actually ban the veil, but he did instigate what the Turks call a dress revolution; his adopted daughters were amongst the first to model western clothing and it soon became a mark of modernity - and patriotism - to follow suit. Turkish women got the vote before French women did.

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