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The Portrait of a Conservative Woman: Semiha AyverdiKeywords: Turkey , Conservatism , Gender , Semiha Ayverdi , Discipline Abstract: Turkish Conservatism as a cultural apparatus, has a great role in the mollification of radical modernity.Mild modernisation of women is an essential part of this cultural language of conservatism. Ayverdi, asa conservative woman, deals with this mildy modern tranformation of women in behalf of maintaining ofold cultural merits. She is also interested in details life style. Ayverdi highlights the “Turkish Muslimwoman” as a resistant moral esence of Conservatism and Turkish Modernisation
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