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Title Gendered identities : criticizing patriarchy in Turkey / edited by Rasim Özgür Dönmez and Fazilet Ahu Özmen
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 191 pages)
Contents Acknowledgment; Introduction; 1 COUP D'ÉTATS AND THE MASCULINE TURKISH POLITICAL SPHERE: MODERNIZATION WITHOUT STRONG DEMOCRATIZATION; 2 THE UNKNOWN REALITY OF WOMEN IN TURKEY: ECONOMIC VIOLENCE; 3 DEVELOPMENT AND THE SOUTHEASTERN ANATOLIA PROJECT (GAP): AN ECOFEMINIST INQUIRY; 4 TRANSSEXUALS IN TURKEY: BETWEEN DISCIPLINING AND ERADICATING; 5 MÜJDE AR AS A TWIST IN THE DOMINANT FICTION OF THE CINEMA OF TURKEY; 6 LOOKING AT THE JUVENILE PENAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN TURKEY THROUGH THE QUESTION OF PATRIARCHY
7 ISLAMIC WOMEN'S ORDEAL WITH THE NEW FACE(S) OF PATRIARCHY IN POWER: DIVERGENCE OR CONVERGENCE OVER EXPANDING WOMEN'S CITIZENSHIP?8 ALEVI WOMEN AND PATRIARCHY; 9 POSITIONING IDENTITIES IN TERMS OF GENDER EQUALITY: THE CASE OF ISTANBUL GREEK MINORITY; Conclusion; Index; About the Contributors
Summary This book aims to analyze and deconstruct the forms of patriarchy embedded in Turkish society and politics. In this regard, it analyses how patriarchy functions and reconstructs itself by suppressing women and non heterosexuals. It also reveals its effects on women and non-heterosexuals through some societal and political issues such as military interventions, the perceptions on transsexuals by the state and society, juvenile penal justice, and policies on environment
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Male domination (Social structure) -- Turkey
Patriarchy -- Social aspects -- Turkey
Patriarchy -- Political aspects -- Turkey
Women -- Turkey -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Men's Studies.
Male domination (Social structure)
Women -- Social conditions
Turkey
Form Electronic book
Author Dönmez, Rasim Özgür
Özmen, Fazilet Ahu
LC no. 2021675727
ISBN 9780739175637
0739175637
9780739175637