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On the one hand, I wanted to show them I had respect for their lifestyle, and on the other, I did not want to change an important aspect of my identity to suit theirs. As an unveiled woman, I was an outsider and did not want to be perceived as an insider by temporarily looking like them. I am not sure how, if at all, the clothes I wore influenced my research, the interviewees’ perceptions of me, their decision to participate in the study or not, and the quality of data I collected. As an unveiled and “privileged” woman, I had challenges at two different levels.
First, the headscarf ban policy was a sensitive topic in the Turkish higher education system and was intertwined with Turkish politics. The ban had a history of almost 30 years, impacting the lives of covered women in one way or another at different levels. The history of the ban included campus riots, police harassment, arrests, student protests, court cases, classroom violence, student discrimination, dropouts, and other events (“Mazlumder,” 1998). It was a THE RESEARCH AND THE RESEARCHER 17 topic that had been discussed widely by the opposing political factions in the political and educational context of Turkey and had been one of the mostly hotly debated topics in the media.
Foreign policies and the war in Iraq, and they made inquiries about potential “hidden agendas” of professors in my department. Clearly, the perceptions of potential interviewees about the international political climate and the role of the United States in the Muslim world had an impact on their decision to take part (or not) in the study. In addition, considering the questions asked, it was obvious that I was perceived as a student researcher from America rather than a Turkish woman living in the United States, attending an American higher education institution.
