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Religion, politics and gender equality in Turkey: implications of a democratic paradox / Arat, Yesim   Journal Article
Arat, Yesim Journal Article
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Publication 2010.
Summary/Abstract This article examines the gendered implications of the intertwining of Islam and politics that took shape after the process of democratisation in Turkey had brought a political party with an Islamist background to power. This development revived the spectre of restrictive sex roles for women. The country is thus confronted with a democratic paradox: the expansion of religious freedoms accompanying potential and/or real threats to gender equality. The ban on the Islamic headscarf in universities has been the most visible terrain of public controversy on Islam. However, the paper argues that a more threatening development is the propagation of patriarchal religious values, sanctioning secondary roles for women through the public bureaucracy as well as through the educational system and civil society organisations.
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Violence, resistance and Gezi Park / Arat, Yesim   Journal Article
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Publication 2013.
Summary/Abstract As a student of politics whose primary research interest is in women's political participation in Turkey, my engagement with the study of violence is through the lens of gender.1 In gender studies, "violence" is arguably the most important critical concept for the articulation of the personal as the political. Women's recognition that violence in their personal lives and intimate relationships needed to be problematized in the political realm and transformed through public debate was a revolutionary development. Bringing this recognition into the canon of political thought has been a major contribution of feminist theorists.
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Women's rights and Islam in Turkish politics: the civil code amendment / Arat, Yesim   Journal Article
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Publication 2010.
Summary/Abstract Literature on Turkey's 2001 civil code amendment, which expanded women's rights, is limited to reports on the code's achievements and failings. This article examines the parliamentary debates behind the amendment to shed light on the contemporary Islamist-secularist polarization in Turkey. It shows that women's rights are still a means to pursue the goals of secularist modernization. They shape the power struggle over what the role of religion in public life should be and what secularism should entail.
Key Words Secularism  ;  Turkey - Politics  ;  Women Right  ;  Civil Code  ;  Secularist  ;  Islam 
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