New Grounds for Patriarchy in Turkey? Gender Policy in the Age of AKP

Cosar S., Yegenoglu M.

SOUTH EUROPEAN SOCIETY AND POLITICS, cilt.16, sa.4, ss.555-573, 2011 (SSCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 16 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2011
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/13608746.2011.571919
  • Dergi Adı: SOUTH EUROPEAN SOCIETY AND POLITICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.555-573
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Turkey, gender policy, AKP, feminism, neoliberal-conservative, patriarchy, DEVELOPMENT PARTY, WOMEN, DISCOURSES, ISLAMIST, POLITICS, JUSTICE
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This article addresses the gender policies of the AKP (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi-Justice and Development Party) government in Turkey. It is argued that AKP's period in government has been marked by the emergence of a new mode of patriarchy. The article aims at a tentative conceptualisation of this new mode of patriarchy in terms of neoliberal, nationalist and religious discourses in comparison with the already existing republican and liberal modes of patriarchy.