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Mental Hygiene, Puericulture, and Cultural Politics of Childhood in Turkey, 1920s to 1950s: Reforming the Nation through Reforming the Mind and Body of the Child.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mental Hygiene, Puericulture, and Cultural Politics of Childhood in Turkey, 1920s to 1950s: Reforming the Nation through Reforming the Mind and Body of the Child./
Author:	Tunc, Yasin.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	231 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-10A(E).
Subject:	Education history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10112686
ISBN:	9781339758312

Mental Hygiene, Puericulture, and Cultural Politics of Childhood in Turkey, 1920s to 1950s: Reforming the Nation through Reforming the Mind and Body of the Child.
Tunc, Yasin.

Mental Hygiene, Puericulture, and Cultural Politics of Childhood in Turkey, 1920s to 1950s: Reforming the Nation through Reforming the Mind and Body of the Child. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 231 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2016.

This study traces the cultural politics of childhood during the two decades following the formation of the Republic of Turkey (1930s and 1940s), a period that marked the beginnings of the Republican biopolitics. Once the Republic was founded, a relatively small group of secular scientists, intellectuals, and policy makers, the self-declared guardians of the nation, assumed the tasks of fabricating a physically and mentally sound, stable, and productive Turkish citizenry. Discourses of the citizen were disseminated through education, childrearing practices and medicine to every corner of the republic as the ideal of a unified national identity. These ideals of the citizen were expressed through the population question (nufus meselesi) and the child question (cocuk meselesi). The population question connoted two interrelated discursive lines of the Republican biopolitics simultaneously. One was to increase the population through pronatalist interventions, investments and policies. The second was to bring about fitter life through eugenically inspired public health and public education policies and interventions. These elements of biopolitics were seen as essential to the modernization and progress of the nascent Republic. The bodies and minds of the children of the Republic came to serve as the catalyst to address the hopes and fears embedded in both of these goals.

ISBN: 9781339758312Subjects--Topical Terms:

3171959
Education history.

Mental Hygiene, Puericulture, and Cultural Politics of Childhood in Turkey, 1920s to 1950s: Reforming the Nation through Reforming the Mind and Body of the Child.
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