Waves of feminism in Turkey: Kemalist, Islamist and Kurdish women's movements in an era of globalization

Diner, Cagla; Toktaş, Şule

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“…Although burdening Turkish women with moral guardianship of the family and wider social engineering is not new (Kandiyoti, 1998;Diner and Toktaş, 2010), the AKP's zealous stance against abortions and C-sections is recent. (Former) Prime Minister Erdogan condemns, as Altınok notes, Caesarean births and abortions as a 'conspiracy to wipe this nation from the Work Group on Academic Liberty and Freedom of Research in Turkey: http://gitamerica .blogspot.com/p/links .html, last accessed 7 March 2014.…”

Section: Turkey: a Human Security State?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Hope with Qualms: A Feminist Analysis of the 2013 Gezi Protests

Potuoğlu-Cook¹

2015

Feminist Review

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In this article, I argue for the distinctness of the 2013 Gezi uprisings from other anti-austerity protests. With a materialist feminist eye on the third-term AKP government's conservative authoritarianism, I explore the causal links among patriarchal, racist biopolitics, heteronormative family values and increasing austerity measures. My broader analytical goal is to demonstrate the centrality of moral politics to uneven, security-based neoliberal regulations across markets, public spaces, and civic expression in and beyond Turkey. Second, I zoom in on the mothers’ rallies and gendered, ethnic acts of mourning to analyse the performative constitution of multiple publics during the protests. What exclusions have the participants produced in the name of inclusion? How can a performance paradigm help us understand the contradictory uses of space among and against the protestors, and more broadly, the relevance of embodied dissent to different visions of social justice? To deepen our intersectional feminist analysis, I suggest taking performances seriously, from human chains to soundscapes of resistance, stillness, and brutality; and from eclectic dance forms to architectural disruptions. Attending to the uprisings’ fault-lines and radical contributions, I also caution against ‘romancing resistance’. Hope with qualms is what remains.

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Section: Turkey: a Human Security State?mentioning

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Hope with Qualms: A Feminist Analysis of the 2013 Gezi Protests

Potuoğlu-Cook¹

2015

Feminist Review

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“…Surprisingly, the second feminist wave evolved just after the 1980 coup when all political parties were closed except those few founded and controlled by the military; many political leaders, labour unions and political organizations were banned from politics (Diner & Toktaş, 2010, p. 45). Violent confrontations between radical leftist and right-wing groups that had led to political instability served as the main justification for the military's intervention in politics, and spawned a "depoliticized" environment in the 1980s (Diner & Toktaş, 2010; also see Pope & Pope, 1997). It was at this moment, when civil society was severely restricted, that an independent women's movement flourished.…”

Section: Redistributive Social Justice Claims: Women and The Turkish mentioning

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Women in Transnational Migrant Activism: Supporting Social Justice Claims of Homeland Political Organizations

Mügge

2012

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“…Güleryüz (Smiling Face) and Aydede (Moonlight) were two leading humour magazines of the days. Güleryüz was pro-national movement and supported Mustafa Kemal as "the symbol of the anti-imperialist movement" (Çeviker 1997(Çeviker cited by Tunç 2002 while Aydede stood against the nationalist cause and supported European intervention (Tunç 2002, 53).…”

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The Depiction of Women’s Suffrage in Turkey in the Editorial Cartoons of the Era

Ince

2015

Journal of Yaşar University

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IntroductionThroughout its history, cartoons have been used both as a tool for propaganda and opposition. The power of the visual over the text, the ability to convey complex messages by simple symbols and metaphors, the chance to reach to the illiterate as well as the literate have been the advantages of this medium. Its publication in the newspapers has also facilitated the dissemination of its messages to the masses through a medium which was a tool itself in the creation of the nations (see Anderson 2006). As for the case of modernisation and nation-building in Turkey, the cartoons have been assigned similar roles to that of the ones in Western societies. They became a functional tool of propaganda during the nation-building process (Gencer 2012 and. They also assisted the creation of stereotypes in which the friends and enemies of the nation had been coded. During this period, the transition to a modern and secular society went hand in hand with the cultural and historical memory of the society. Despite the fervent efforts for women"s emancipation, the reforms related to the women have been a realm of meaning in which historical memory was transformed to a new form of patriarchy. Settled stereotypes of this ideology held the liberation of women hostage. Women became the face of a modernising and Westernising society by becoming more visible in public life, attaining "men"s professions" or voting, yet meanwhile they were expected to act not as individuals but as the missionaries of the nation-building process by being mothers and child rearing for the nation. This was the creation of the "child-woman" (Zihnioğlu 2003), growing with the Kemalist reforms whom was asked to suffice with what the "fathers" gave and serve to the nation within the boarders of the "common good" decided by the political elites. Any independent voice would be stigmatised as a deviation from the national ideology of the nation-builders.The granting of the suffrage rights in Turkey exemplifies this attitude toward women. The sideline of the women"s movement embodied in the Women"s Union which was leaded by Nezihe Muhiddin indicates the thin line between being the ally and the enemy of the founding ideology of the regime. The analysis of the depiction of women after the granting of the suffrage rights in the cartoons of the era, enable to see the construction of women"s identities and evaluate whether their individualities have been circumscribed within the forms of patriarchy. By scrutinising the cartoons ran in the newspapers when the suffrage rights were granted, this study aims to understand the stereotypes which defined the boundaries of womenhood and women"s movement.

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Waves of feminism in Turkey: Kemalist, Islamist and Kurdish women's movements in an era of globalization

Cited by 104 publications

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Hope with Qualms: A Feminist Analysis of the 2013 Gezi Protests

Hope with Qualms: A Feminist Analysis of the 2013 Gezi Protests

Women in Transnational Migrant Activism: Supporting Social Justice Claims of Homeland Political Organizations

The Depiction of Women’s Suffrage in Turkey in the Editorial Cartoons of the Era

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