Women and Civil Society in Turkey
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CEDAW Committee
Civil Society
Contemporary Liberal Feminists
Demokrat Parti
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feminist theory
Feminist Women's Movement
gender studies
Halide Edib
intersectionality
Islamic feminism
Islamic Women's Movement
Kemalist Principles
Kemalist Women
Kurdish activism
Kurdish Feminism
Kurdish Women
MENA Country
Ottoman Society
Ottoman Women
People's Houses
People’s Houses
plural public sphere transformation
political modernisation
pro-Western Intellectuals
Traditional Islamic Understanding
turkish
Turkish Feminism
Turkish Feminists
Turkish Women
Women's Problems
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781472410078
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 07 Nov 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Ömer Çaha is Professor of Political Science at Yildiz Technical University, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Istanbul, Turkey. He is interested in such issues as democratization, civil society, political behaviors, social movements and women’s movements.
