Overview
- Provides original data for the growing field of (women’s) social movement research
- Offers empirical evidence for new challenges and prospects for coalitional politics under neoliberal contexts
- Introduces an intersectional conceptualization of patriarchy
Part of the book series: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity (FEMCIT)
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About this book
This book explores the politics of organized Muslim women in Turkey and analyzes their coalitions with other—secular feminist, Kurdish, etc.—women’s movements from an intersectional perspective. It provides empirical evidence for significant changes in Muslim women’s politics under the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and points to the increasing difficulty to build cross-movement women’s coalitions in the face of rising religious conservatism and authoritarianism under the AKP rule. While feminist Muslim women who display an intersectional understanding of structural inequality and oppression are found to be more resilient in the face of political pressure, conservative Muslim women dodge women’s coalitions and align with the government’s discourses and policies. Empirical evidence based on interviews with organized Muslim women also shows that prospects for coalition building largely depends on the specific societal and institutional (re-)configurations of patriarchy along with other relations of domination rather than mere ideological “difference” among women.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students across Gender Studies, Sociology, and Political Science, particularly those whose research focuses on intersectionality and social movements.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Organized Muslim Women in Turkey
Book Subtitle: An Intersectional Approach to Building Women’s Coalitions
Authors: Ayşe Dursun
Series Title: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09308-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09307-4Published: 26 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09310-4Published: 26 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09308-1Published: 25 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2947-8081
Series E-ISSN: 2947-809X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 236
Topics: Gender Studies, Politics and Gender, Religion and Gender, Political Sociology