Shaping gender policy in Turkey : grassroots women activists, the European Union, and the Turkish state / Gül Aldıkaçtı Marshall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aldıkaçtı Marshall, Gül.

Series:

SUNY Press Open Access

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union.

Feminism--Turkey.

Feminism.

Sex discrimination against women--Turkey.

Sex discrimination against women.

Women's rights--Turkey.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

State University of New York Press 2013

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Timely analysis of the ways in which women grassroots activists, the European Union, and the Turkish state are involved in shaping gender policies in Turkey. Shaping Gender Policy in Turkey uncovers how, why, and to what extent Turkish women, in addition to the Turkish state and the European Union, have been involved in gender policy changes in Turkey. Through analysis of the role of multiple actors at the subnational, national, and supranational levels, Gül Aldıkaçtı Marshall provides a detailed account of policy diffusion and feminist involvement in policymaking. Contextualizing the meaning of gender equality and multiple approaches to women's rights, she highlights a pivotal but neglected dimension of scholarship on Turkey's candidacy for European Union membership. This book represents one of the few works providing a multilevel analysis of gender policy in predominantly Muslim countries, and highlights Turkey's role at a time of swift structural changes to several political regimes in the Middle East.

Contents:

Conceptualizing the actors' roles

Gender equality, women's rights, and stipulations within the enlarging EU

Before the 1999 Helsinki Summit : the state's gender regime in Turkey

Active citizenship : women's collective response to the state's gender regime in Turkey, 1980-1999

Aftermath of the 1999 Helsinki Summit : the role of the EU and the Turkish state in changing gender policies in Turkey

Women's grassroots activism in changing gender policies after the Helsinki Summit

Conclusion: sustained-pressure in shifting winds.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438447735

1438447736

OCLC:

857078921

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access