Young Girls’ Struggles and Strategies in the Family Field
摘要
This chapter investigates the deep intergenerational divide revealed through fieldwork conducted across multiple cities in Turkey, focusing on the contrasting understandings of family held by young girls versus their parents, grandparents, and the AK Party government. While older generations largely reproduce a coherent and taken-for-granted family doxa—where imagined and idealized notions of family overlap—young girls articulate perspectives that not only diverge from but often directly challenge these dominant narratives. Drawing on Bourdieu’s concepts of doxa and illusio, as well as the distinctions between imagined, idealized, and lived family, the chapter examines how younger girls question inherited assumptions, experience a weakening of illusio, and develop heterodox positions in the family field. These shifts produce visible generational tensions rooted in the discrepancy between idealized family expectations and lived realities. By analyzing young girls’ strategies of negotiation, resistance, and struggle against symbolic power and symbolic violence, the chapter highlights emerging possibilities for transformation within the family field, demonstrating how contestation by younger actors destabilizes established norms and opens space for new forms of familial meaning and practice.