Sayfa 461A.A brief overview of the politics of gender in Turkey
The politics of gender refers to processes of appropriation, contestation, and reinterpretation…
In Ottoman lands, the woman question, including women’s education and unjust laws…
Women’s education and participation in public life, and the development of a stronger…
The women’s movement in Turkey took advantage of the political opportunities presented…
Notwithstanding the gains they made in the early 2000s, what women and LGBTI+ communities…
The antifeminist backlash and “blame the victim” mentality in the legal process (Doğanay…
Notwithstanding the prevalence of patriarchal discourses in the media, legal system…
The reform period of the 1990s and early 2000s came to a halt once JDP, which came…
Like other right-wing authoritarian counterparts around the world, political agents…
In public statements, Erdoğan also disparaged career-oriented women for being “unnatural”…
Deniz Kandiyoti’s (2013) concept of masculinist restoration captures the political…
“Masculinist restoration comes into play at the point when patriarchy-as-usual is no longer fully secure and requires higher levels of coercion and the deployment of more varied ideological state apparatuses to ensure its reproduction. The recourse to violence (or the condoning of violence) points not to the routine functioning of patriarchy or the resurgence of traditionalism, but to its threatened demise at a point when notions of female subordination are no longer securely hegemonic. The process of Islamization can attempt to boost …
In Turkey, the process of masculinist restoration has progressed in tandem with the…
“Our religion has given women a status: the status of motherhood (...) [Allah] put the heaven under the feet of your mother, not your father. You [should] kiss the bottom of mother’s feet. Mother is something else altogether. Mothers have a status that no one can reach. But there are those who understand this and there are those who do not. You can’t tell this to feminists, for example: they don’t accept motherhood. But for us, those who understand are enough, we continue with them.” (BBC 2014).…
It is only a short trip from this pronouncement that juxtaposes feminism to motherhood…
Consequently, feminists in contemporary Turkey adopt a more defensive feminism since…
On guard feminism responds to a necessity, but it is not solely defensive, at least…
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