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| Author | : Asuman Özgür Keysan |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : 2019-11-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1786726319 |
Civil society is often seen as male, structured in a way that excludes women from public and political life. Much feminist scholarship sees civil society and feminism as incompatible a result. But scholars and activists are currently trying to update this view by looking at women's positions in civil society and women's activism. This book contributes to this new research, arguing that civil society is a contested terrain where women can negotiate and successfully challenge dominant discourses in society. The book is based on interviews with women activists from ten women's organizations in Turkey. Foregrounding the voices of women, the book answers the question "How do women's NGOs contribute to civil society in the Middle East?”. At a time when civil society is being promoted and institutionalised in Turkey, particularly by the EU, this book demonstrates that women's organisations can help achieve women's emancipation, even if there are significant differences in their approaches and ideas.
| Author | : Nüket Kardam |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2017-11-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1351143867 |
Examining the rise of global women's human rights and their interpretation and application to Turkey, Nüket Kardam provides an in-depth study that applies global norms - including women's empowerment, overcoming violence against women, and gender and good governance - to a specific locale in order to examine events post application. The volume examines whether a gender equality regime exists and looks into the Turkish attempt at compliance. Moreover, it analyzes the tension between abstract universalism, Western enlightenment values, and local values and identities, including the role of Islam regarding women's rights. This groundbreaking study also includes research on the women's movement in Turkey, its discourses and its relationship with the state from the 1980s onwards, during which time multilateral and bilateral donors, and the European Union came to exert more influence, and new civil society partnerships were formed with the state.
| Author | : Gül Aldıkaçtı Marshall |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 189 |
| Release | : 2013-07-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1438447736 |
Shaping Gender Policy in Turkey uncovers how, why, and to what extent Turkish women, in addition to the Turkish state and the European Union, have been involved in gender policy changes in Turkey. Through analysis of the role of multiple actors at the subnational, national, and supranational levels, Gül Aldıkaçtı Marshall provides a detailed account of policy diffusion and feminist involvement in policymaking. Contextualizing the meaning of gender equality and multiple approaches to women's rights, she highlights a pivotal but neglected dimension of scholarship on Turkey's candidacy for European Union membership. This book represents one of the few works providing a multilevel analysis of gender policy in predominantly Muslim countries, and highlights Turkey's role at a time of swift structural changes to several political regimes in the Middle East. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched—an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1708.
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| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2010 |
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| Author | : Selin Çağatay |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2021-12-16 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 303084451X |
What do struggles for women’s and LGBTI+ rights in Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries have in common? And what can actors who struggle for rights and justice in these contexts learn from each other? Based on a multisited ethnography of feminist and LGBTI+ activisms across Russia, Turkey and the Scandinavian countries, this Open Access book explores transnational struggles on various levels, from the micro-scale of the everyday to large-scale, spectacular events. Drawing on ethnographic insights and encounters from various sites, this book conceptualizes resistance as situated in the grey zone between barely perceptible, even hidden or covert, forms of mundane activist practices and highly visible street protests, gathering large crowds. Taking the reader beyond the dichotomies of visible/invisible and public/private, this book advances new understandings of resistance, solidarity, and activism in transnationalizing feminist and queer struggles, illustrated by rich ethnographic case studies from Russia, Scandinavia and Turkey.
| Author | : Ayşe Gönüllü Atakan |
| Publisher | : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 2014-11-24 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9783659638558 |
The main aim of this study is to investigate the impact of women's activism on the gender equality agenda in Turkey, specifically in terms of legislative reforms. In this context, this study is devoted to a more elaborate assessment of the Campaign for the Turkish Penal Code in 2005. This work is that women's activism in Turkey, which made its way into public discourse in the 1980's, maturing and becoming institutionalized in the 1990's, transformed into an effective civil society agent in shaping social policy. In this process, women's organizations increasingly engaged with international women's rights mechanisms and used them in demanding the state to comply with its international obligations.
| Author | : Prof Dr Ömer Çaha |
| Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2013-12-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1472410092 |
Focusing on three important interrelated issues, Women and Civil Society in Turkey challenges the classical definition, developed in the West, of civil society as an equivalent of the public sphere in which women are excluded. First it shows how feminist movements have developed a new definition of civil society to include women. Second it draws attention to the role of women in the modernization of Turkey with special reference to the debate on the possibility of an indigenous feminist movement. Finally, it underlines the contribution of feminist, Islamic and Kurdish women’s movements in the transition from an ideologically constructed, uniform public sphere to a multi-public domain. Giving attention to the influence of diverse women’s movements over Turkish political values this book sheds light into the issue of how a feminine civil society has been constructed as part of a plural public space in Turkey. Ömer Çaha argues that this new public realm is the product of values and institutions which have been developed by diverse women’s groups who have succeeded in eliminating the traditional barricades between public and domestic spheres and in steering women into public life without sacrificing their own values.
| Author | : Nadje Sadig Al-Ali |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 50 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Droits des femmes |
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Extrait du résumé : "Les mouvements féminins du Moyen-Orient se distinguent les uns des autres par leur évolution historique, aussi bien que par leurs idées et pratiques actuelles. Pourtant, ils se ressemblent en ce sens qu'ils ont en commun plusieurs facteurs historiques et politiques ... . Les spécificités et différences peuvent être regroupées sous des thèmes généraux, comme le montrent à l'évidence deux études de cas, l'Egypte et la Turquie, dont il est question dans ce document. L'analyse des mouvements féminins en Egypte et en Turquie passe par une brève exploration du contexte historiques, c'est à dire de la naissance et du développemnt d'organisations féminines et d'une pensée féministe. La description du contexte historique montre quelle importance il peut avoir pour comprendre les mouvements féminis actuels dans la région. ... Le contexte contemporain amène à débattre de la topographie propre à la vie politique nationale, qui constitue la toile de fond sur laquelle s'inscrit le militantisme des féministes actuelles. L'auteur prend en considération, non seulement les questions relatives à l'économie politique, aux rapports entre l'état et la société, à la politique des partis, mais aussi le rôle des affiliations et relations internationales. ... Les comparaison des deux études de cas laisse à penser que, malgré des contextes historiques et politiques différents, les mouvements féminins des deux pays ont, ces dernières années, remis en question des notions couramment acceptées de la culture et institutions politiques. En élargissant le champ d'étude et en se penchant aussi sur le militantisme féministe dans d'autres pays de la région, il apparaît que les mouvements féminins du Moyen-Orient peuvent être un facteur de démocratisation mais sont très limités dans leur action par les structures sociales et politiques en place, le manque d'objectifs institutionnels clairs et de politiques publiques ambitieuses."
| Author | : Sophia Papastavrou |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 113 |
| Release | : 2020-08-19 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3030459462 |
This book examines the work of three key women’s organizations working towards women’s rights and a peaceful solution to the Cyprus Problem. Based on a 13-year longitudinal qualitative study that develops a transnational feminist lens to look at the role of Hands Across the Divide (HAD), the Gender Advisory Team (GAT), and the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS) organizations in women's activism on Cyprus, the research zooms in on three main questions: 1) How have women’s groups organized for peace? 2) What have been their key issues and organizing strategies? 3) What have been their organizing successes and challenges?
| Author | : Asuman Özgür Keysan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
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This thesis asks how women's organisations are affected by and responding to the promotion and institutionalisation of civil society in Turkey, as led by the European Union (EU). More specifically, I enquire into the civil society discourses articulated by members of women's organisations in the country in order to evaluate the extent to which they reflect or contest hegemonic views of civil society currently in circulation. I employ feminist critical discourse analysis to make sense of forty-one semi-structured interviews conducted with women activists from Kemalist, Islamic, Kurdish, feminist and anti-capitalist organisations, and of their group documents. I make four main sets of empirical arguments about this data, namely that members of women's organisations in Turkey articulate diverse discourses of civil society; that these discourses cut across different organisations in ways that belie what are often seen as fundamental ideological differences in the Turkish context; that these discourses show women activists in Turkey do not passively reproduce dominant views of civil society, even if many cling to it as a normative ideal; and that there is evidence of important critiques of and/or resistance to civil society, and of its outright rejection, meriting wider attention amongst activists and analysts. With these arguments, the thesis contributes to the literature on NGO construction of civil society in Turkey and the Middle East, and on the women's movement in Turkey, and to the feminist theorisation of civil society.
