Whither feminist alliance? Secular feminists and Islamist women in Turkey

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dc.authorid0000-0003-1270-0779en_US
dc.contributor.authorSimga, Hulya
dc.contributor.authorGoker, Gulru Z.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-12T21:45:10Z
dc.date.available2024-07-12T21:45:10Z
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.departmentMaltepe Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThe women's movement has become increasingly entangled with the secularism versus Islamism debate in today's Turkey. While secular feminists believe that escalating authoritarianism and Islamic revivalism threaten gender equality and the gains of the women's rights movement, Islamist women contest the western/secular ideal of gender equality on account of its being antithetical to the Islamic canon. The mutual marginalization by feminists and Islamists, mainly fueled by partisan politics, harms the much needed solidarity among women's groups to solve the problems women face in Turkey, such as violence and unequal political participation. Moreover, this polarization has the harmful effect of reinforcing patriarchy: men, therefore face no challenges and simply continue to remain the sole producers and controllers of socio-political policies and epistemic resources. Hence, there seems to be a pressing need for secular feminists and Islamists to start a dialogue and focus on problems and issues they share in common, so as to seek urgent solutions to them. This article inquires into the viability of such an alliance through the proliferation of deliberative platforms where civil society organizations can meet at a safe distance from partisan politics and enter productive dialogue and generate policies to resolve the crucial problems women are facing in Turkey.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/12259276.2017.1349717
dc.identifier.endpage293en_US
dc.identifier.issn1225-9276
dc.identifier.issn2377-004X
dc.identifier.issue3en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85028429826en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2en_US
dc.identifier.startpage273en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1080/12259276.2017.1349717
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12415/7804
dc.identifier.volume23en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000407620500001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherEWHA WOMANS UNIV PRESSen_US
dc.relation.ispartofASIAN JOURNAL OF WOMENS STUDIESen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.snmzKY00350
dc.subjectDeliberative democracyen_US
dc.subjectgender equalityen_US
dc.subjectgender justiceen_US
dc.subjectwomen's movement in Turkeyen_US
dc.subjectfeminismen_US
dc.titleWhither feminist alliance? Secular feminists and Islamist women in Turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication

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