Whither feminist alliance? Secular feminists and Islamist women in Turkey

Şimga, Hülya; Goker, Zeynep Gulru

doi:10.1080/12259276.2017.1349717

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“…However, this backlash politics reversing the existing egalitarian legal framework does not mean that the political closures in the gender regime consume all meaning-making processes around gender. Forging new types of affective and intersectional solidarity among women and proposing alternative imaginaries for a feminist-inspired social justice vision (Çelik and Göker 2021;Dinçer 2020;Simga and Goker 2017), feminist activists reject the party's attempts to establish a "narrative monoculture" where feminist imaginaries are eliminated altogether (Foroughi et al 2019). In what follows, the article discusses the ways in which young Muslim women's dissident mentalities, practices, and subjectivities pose a significant challenge to the hegemonic terms of the anti-feminist and anti-gender governmentality under the new gender regime.…”

Section: Gender and Islam In Rwp Politics In Turkeymentioning

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“Are You God? Damn Your Family!”: The Islam–Gender Nexus in Right-Wing Populism and the New Generation of Muslim Feminist Activism in Turkey

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2022

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This article examines young Muslim women’s dissident mentalities, practices, and subjectivities that confront the epistemological conditions whereby right-wing populist (RWP) gender politics operates in Turkey. Relying on frame theory in social movement research and the Foucauldian approach to resistance, dissent, and protest, it explores Muslim feminist critique of RWP gender discourse mainly with a focus on the following issues: (i.) Instrumentalization of the headscarf, (ii.) familialist policies, and (iii.) violence against women and the Istanbul Convention (the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence). As a result, it demonstrates that young Muslim women’s dissident mentalities and subjectivities generate a new “political project”, i.e., a set of new meanings and social goals directed at bringing about social change, which comes into being through the act of resistance against RWP gender grammar and carves out new forms of knowledge reclaiming the Islam–gender nexus for a progressive feminist agenda.

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Section: Gender and Islam In Rwp Politics In Turkeymentioning

confidence: 99%

“Are You God? Damn Your Family!”: The Islam–Gender Nexus in Right-Wing Populism and the New Generation of Muslim Feminist Activism in Turkey

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2022

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“…The recent upsurge of antifeminist gender politics in the Turkish context has incited many debates on the limits and possibilities of collaboration in the women's movement. Some scholars suggest that the political urgencies of the current gender regime provide women with opportunity structures that facilitate dialogue based on a commitment to universal rights and values and lead to profeminist alliances beyond ideological antagonisms (Onar and Paker 2012; Simga and Goker 2017). According to this view, coalition building based on strategic alliances around human rights discourse urges subjects to act in concert in the temporary pursuit of specific shared goals and ensures mutual recognition of differences.…”

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“…This potential also manifested itself in feminist protests in 2017, when women rallied for the right to wear both miniskirts and headscarves, chanting slogans such as “don't meddle with my headscarf, don't meddle with my shorts” ( Hürriyet 2017 ). 2 Activists and influential public figures from both secular and Islamic camps cite these deliberative experiences as transformative points in reinforcing the dialogue in between (Onar and Paker 2012; Simga and Goker 2017). Moreover, the Recel Blog 3 has been one of the popular online portals in the recent era, where young Islamic women can discuss gender issues ranging from child sexual abuse to veiling through a gender-conscious perspective.…”

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The Abortion Debate and Profeminist Coalition Politics in Contemporary Turkey

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This article presents a qualitative analysis of profeminist Islamic women public figures’ discourses in the abortion debate in Turkey in 2012. The aim is to reveal the possibilities and limitations of achieving an intersectional and egalitarian profeminist collaboration on the Islamic-secular axis in contemporary Turkey. Drawing on recent feminist scholarship on coalition politics, the article exposes the fluctuations of meaning and the shifting frames of reference in these women's narratives and relates this hybrid, dynamic narrative quality to profeminist Islamic women's unique social location. It also elaborates on the blockage points in these narratives that hinder coalitional ways of thinking. Within this frame, this article suggests that in a social and political context that has witnessed a striking upsurge of antifeminist gender politics in the last decade, the building of coalitional profeminist politics beyond the Islamic-secular divide can be facilitated by shifting the focus from the apparently irreconcilable character of ideological positionings and lived experiences toward coalitional rhetorical strategies and intermediary narrative lines in profeminist subjects’ accounts.

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“…Dengan kata lain, keterbukaan ruang politik bagi perempuan dapat menjadi basis bagi perkembangan demokrasi. Namun demikian, banyak kasus memperlihatkan hal sebaliknya (Simga and Goker 2017).…”

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Dynamics in Attaining Woman Quota of 30% (Study among Political Parties in Central Java Province Indonesia)

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Safitri²,

Illiyyun³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Law, Social Science, Economics, and Education, ICLSSEE 2021, March 6th 2021

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The Law on General Elections in Indonesia was a revolution in legislation. However, after three general elections, the 30% quota that was set for women in the political sphere showed that the quota target was still not met, even in some places it decreased. Applying qualitative research method with a gender approach, the research showed that: 1) Party leaders saw that the enactment of quota for women in political parties was a good policy in an effort to increase women's involvement in the political sphere; 2) Some parties have special efforts to involve women in the political party, although some parties do not have special programs; 3) The effort of party has the effect on the number of women of the party in legislative board.The difficulty in achieving the quota was partly due to: lack of common understanding in the party structure regarding quotas, as well as difficulties in getting female cadres.

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Whither feminist alliance? Secular feminists and Islamist women in Turkey

Cited by 27 publications

References 31 publications

“Are You God? Damn Your Family!”: The Islam–Gender Nexus in Right-Wing Populism and the New Generation of Muslim Feminist Activism in Turkey

“Are You God? Damn Your Family!”: The Islam–Gender Nexus in Right-Wing Populism and the New Generation of Muslim Feminist Activism in Turkey

The Abortion Debate and Profeminist Coalition Politics in Contemporary Turkey

Dynamics in Attaining Woman Quota of 30% (Study among Political Parties in Central Java Province Indonesia)

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