Organized Muslim Women in Turkey

An Intersectional Approach to Building Women's Coalitions
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-031-09310-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 326 g

Reihe: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity

This book explores the politics of organized Muslim women in Turkey and analyzes their coalitions with other—secular feminist, Kurdish, etc.—women’s movements from an intersectional perspective. It provides empirical evidence for significant changes in Muslim women’s politics under the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and points to the increasing difficulty to build cross-movement women’s coalitions in the face of rising religious conservatism and authoritarianism under the AKP rule. While feminist Muslim women who display an intersectional understanding of structural inequality and oppression are found to be more resilient in the face of political pressure, conservative Muslim women dodge women’s coalitions and align with the government’s discourses and policies. Empirical evidence based on interviews with organized Muslim women also shows that prospects for coalition building largely depends on the specific societal and institutional (re-)configurations of patriarchy along with other relations of domination rather than mere ideological “difference” among women.

 This book will be of interest to scholars and students across Gender Studies, Sociology, and Political Science, particularly those whose research focuses on intersectionality and social movements.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dursun, Ay¿e

Dursun, Ayse

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse Fragen von Sexualität, Geschlecht und Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Gender Relations and Women’s Movements in Turkey.- 3. Patriarchy, Women’s Movements, and Coalitions: An Intersectional Framework.- 4. Intersectional Experiences with Structural Inequality and Privilege.- 5. Political Organization and Mobilization.- 6. Organized Muslim Women in Coalitions: Possibilities and Obstacles.- 7. Difficult but Necessary: Outlook for Women’s Coalitions (Research).

Über Autor(innen)

Ayse Dursun is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria. She does research on gender and politics, intersectionality, gender equality policies, social reproduction and care, social and women’s movements, and migration. She has published in a number of peer-reviewed journals including German Politics and Society, Historical Social Research, and Journal of Gender Studies. Ayse Dursun is currently a steering committee member of the European Consortium for Political Research’s (ECPR) standing group on Gender and Politics..