Quietly Reverting Public Matters into Private Troubles: Gendered and Class-Based Consequences of Care Policies in Turkey

Candas, Aysen; Silier, Yildiz

doi:10.1093/sp/jxt018

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“…In fact, Candas and Silier () assert that ‘degendering care and making care a more collective responsibility are connected. So long as care is a woman's responsibility, it will remain devalued.…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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Caring About and For the Cuts: a Case Study of the Gendered Dimension of Austerity and Anti‐austerity Activism

Craddock

2016

Gender Work & Organization

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Austerity is a feminist issue, given its disproportionate impact on women. Within Nottingham there has been a strong resistance to austerity. However, the key local anti-austerity groups neglect this gendered dimension, resulting in women forming their own community groups to provide practical support to women affected by the cuts. This article explores this feminist response to austerity, raising the question of why this gendered dimension is not visible within key local antiausterity movements. It seeks to answer this question by drawing on data from semi-structured interviews with activists, paying close attention to the gendered barriers and exclusions to activism that exist. In particular, this article explores the complex relationship between care and activism that underlies many of these barriers. Finally, it offers some potential solutions to this key problem.

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Caring About and For the Cuts: a Case Study of the Gendered Dimension of Austerity and Anti‐austerity Activism

Craddock

2016

Gender Work & Organization

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“…Turkey has the lowest rate of female employment among OECD countries (OECD, ). Contemporary changes introduced in social policies affirm traditional gender roles and reflect a combination of the neoliberalism and cultural conservatism of the governing party (Buğra, ; Candaş and Silier, ).…”

Section: An Overview Of the Contemporary Situation Of Lgbt Individualmentioning

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Denied Citizens of Turkey: Experiences of Discrimination Among LGBT Individuals in Employment, Housing and Health Care

Yılmaz¹,

Göçmen²

2016

Gender Work & Organization

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The purpose of this article is to explore experiences of discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) individuals in three domains of social policies: employment, housing and health care — domains in which LGBT individuals are not openly recognized as equal citizens and anti‐discrimination legislation is absent in Turkey. Drawing on qualitative content analysis of the data collected from 14 focus group interviews with 139 LGBT individuals conducted in ten provinces of Turkey in the first half of 2014, this article sheds light on diverse forms of discrimination facing LGBT individuals in employment, housing and health care in a largely under‐researched country. The article concludes that the contemporary understanding of Turkish citizenship and its practice are rooted in heterosexist universalism that does not recognize LGBTs as equal citizens, which, in turn, leads to systematic breaches of LGBTs' social rights in employment, housing and health care. The article shows that even strong and universalistic social policies fail to serve LGBTs on an equal footing with other citizens unless equal citizenship rights of LGBTs and anti‐discrimination principles are recognized and realized.

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“…The second scenario is backed by statistical evidence on women's weak labor force attachment, manifesting itself under circumstances of marriage and childbirth (İlkkaracan 2012). Debates in Turkey also underscore the importance of addressing the problem of reliance on women's care work, and the cultural practices that naturalize such gendered divisions of household labor (Candaş and Silier 2014).…”

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“…Need-based social assistance programs and conditional cash transfers introduced in recent decades allow for the state to withdraw from provisioning institutionalized solutions to care work (Yazici 2008). They serve two purposes simultaneously: They allow the government to record means-tested benefits as increases in employment while creating incentives for women to stay at home (Candaş and Silier 2014). These proposals take place during increasingly frequent proclamations by high-ranking public officers about the complementary (and unequal) natures of men and women.…”

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Political and Socio-Economic Change in the Middle East and North Africa

Bahramitash

Esfahani

2016

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Quietly Reverting Public Matters into Private Troubles: Gendered and Class-Based Consequences of Care Policies in Turkey

Cited by 18 publications

References 17 publications

Caring About and For the Cuts: a Case Study of the Gendered Dimension of Austerity and Anti‐austerity Activism

Caring About and For the Cuts: a Case Study of the Gendered Dimension of Austerity and Anti‐austerity Activism

Denied Citizens of Turkey: Experiences of Discrimination Among LGBT Individuals in Employment, Housing and Health Care

Political and Socio-Economic Change in the Middle East and North Africa

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