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Show Tuesday, September Here's guide 20, im THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, C5 Page Feminist is Turkey's most popular writer to books on shelf self-hel- p By MIKE MAZA By ZEYNEP ALEMDAR Associated Press Writer Dallas Morning News . - - ' Here's a guide to recently published self-hel- p books: Small Wonder: How to Answer Your Child's Impossible Questions About Life, by Jean Grasso Fitzpa-tric- k (Viking hardcover, $20.95) Kids ask the darnedest things about love and death, sex, God and family stresses of every embarrassing sort. Parents who feel overwhelmed by questions or queasy about answers will find guidance here. Short and to the point, with no lying, is Fitzpatrick's motto. An upstate New York mom and therapist, she also wrote Something More, In a ISTANBUL, Turkey predominantly Muslim society where "women's rights" is a contradiction, Duygu Asena got fed up. The result: She has become both the bane of fundamentalists and the country's most popular if writer. A "I've been called all kinds of 4 i bad names," Asena, 48, said in an - rlK interview. "But fA i ft HI about nurturing kids' spiritual - ' AJ growth. I knew I was doing the right thing and had no intention of harming anybody, so I continued w ith what I believed to be right." A 70,000-cop- y first printing of "Nothing Has Changed," a collection of Asena's magazine articles from the 1980s, sold out in a week. That broke modern publishing records in Turkey, w here a few thousand copies make a best seller. Asena arranged with the publisher to offer the book at the equivalent of 65 cents, about of the usual price, so it would reach a wide audience. "The project could have failed, Real Moments, by Barbara Ph.D. (Delacorte hardcover, $21.95) Dr. DeAngelis is more perceptive than her TV infomercial or the book string of tides (Are You the One for Me?) one-four- might suggest. But marketing overwhelms meaning in this chatty look at the importance of those "real moments" when you're totally, totally connected to life. Real people are scarce in her examples. Dr. D. makes her points about smelling the roses, living "in the moment" and enjoying success with personal anecdotes of the sort that pass for on talk shows. Though sometimes entertaining, she is less than enlightening this time around. f ( - w ( th "The project could have failed, but if you fear risks, you cannot attain success." Duygu Asena feminist author on Chosen Words; Favorite Sayings of Famous People, by Joseph L. but if you fear risks, you cannot attain success," she told The Associated Press. Her earlier works, two novels and a collection of short stories that address feminist issues, were on best seller lists for years and sold Neely (Great Quotations Publishing miniature hardcover, $4.95) . The enterprising Neely wrote to a bunch of celebrities asking for their words of wisdom, and a bunch wrote back. A few offered original ideas, many quoted the literary masters and several quoted Mom, including Ray Charles ("You may be blind, but you're not stupid. ' '). Also represented in these 64 pages: Fred a, (Mr.) Rogers and Leo (Hugs) who supplied the same quote from The Little Prince; Larry Hag-ma- n, Anna Quindlen and Orville Redenbacher. 267,000 copies. Most of Asena's readers are women in the upper middle class, who are trying to make gains at work while also managing their homes and families in a society where men aren't expected to lift a Model is a computerized hybrid Bus-cagli- "Who is the face of America?" asks the cover line of the September 1994 Mirabella women's fashion magazine displaying this image of a young woman resembling a supermodel who has certainly never been seen before. "She" is For Those Who Can't Believe: Overcoming the Obstacles to Faith, by Harold M. Schulweis (HarperCollins hardcover, $20) . ' 'Why are so many of us indifferent to religion?" Rabbi Schulweis asks in his introduction. "What happened to our (childhood) wonder about the truth of the miracles in the Bible, or our concern over fairness jn the treatment of young Isaac Jxnind to the altar, or our doubts as lo the effectiveness of prayer? And what was wrong with the answers Jwe received?" His consideration of ts .failings in religious education some hot spots: "ignorant a creation by photographer Hiro, a computerized montage combining the features of various a cyber supermodel. The "Great models American Fashion Issue" of the magazine has hit the newsstands. finger. "Somebody had to wake up women about their rights," said Ozlem Oz of Ankara, a university research assistant in her 20s. "Asena has been the conscience of women in cathy ly Cathy Of COURSE BUT N0THIM& MUTED BEI&E TONES FOR TWO I CAN'T YEARS. REO THIS SEASOfO IS ALL ABOUT ELECTRIC REO f SCREAC1IN& DRESS.' mw TO ORlOE TAN CAR TO AW AW HOfllE, E&6SHELL UP ON fo 7sri BLACK IS OUT ANOTHER. TANGERINE? RETWA-SEflMFUCHSIA f 80LD. AG&KESS(VE "ISN'T IT A BUST TO 8E h W0WW?.'- COLOR!!!! 8RI&HT A WEAR WU CArt! Guisewite EAT A WW CUSTOftlER. PUT OH BATHROBE, CURL HER 8UNCC IVORY TOWER. UNLESS IT'S SHbMY W LOCKED ECRJ FURNITURE, TOO v M) VINWL !! irl XJ' Of OATHEAL AND PRETENO l)E NEH ER HAD'THIS COMERSATIOM. COOKIES Turkey." Of Asena's first novel, "Woman Has No Name," Oz said: "When I read it, I felt very good because it almost captured my life." Asena, who is not married, was educated as a teacher but decided not to become one. She began writing for newspaper women's pages, but "I soon figured out that writing Duygu Asena about butterflies and cooking every day was not for me. I had to give a message." The message, as she wrote in a magazine article, was this: "Escape the vicious circle. Fight for your equal rights," and get a job as a first step toward freedom. Her often-lonel- y crusade began in the 1970s, and in 1978 she founded Woman, the first women's magazine in Turkey. Ignoring taboos, Asena was the first Turkish w riter to explore such topics as women's rights, sexuality and wife-beatin- g. Last spring, she criticized the removal of nude statues from Ankara parks and was denounced on television by the new mayor, the first Muslim fundamentalist to win ' the job. "Drown Asena with your spit," . Mayor Melih Gokcek exhorted. Earlier, he had said of the statues: "I spit on this kind of art. " Faxes with insulting sexual messages poured into Asena's office for days afterward. "It was hard to believe such harassment could be pursued in the name of Islam," she said. Fundamentalists have much less y influence in officially secular than in Bangladesh, for exafrj1 ple, where writer Taslima Nasfin went into hiding and then fled after death threats. But their recent political rise has liberal Turks worry' .'. ing about the future . Asena takes a mixed view of the progress women have made in the Tu-ke- ' of her mission, "We've come a long way," she two decades said, "but there's still a long way to go." While virgin brides remain a "sacred value" to many Turks, universities now offer programs in women's studies and shelters have been established for battered women. Last year, Asena became a reguV lar columnist for the prominent )' daily Milliyet. pin-ipoin- !piety," misunderstandings of the Jiature of evil and suffering, confuIWyWrad sion of miracles with magic, and of Eat Better obedience to authority with morali- - i i ... . . V Look Better . . . 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