New Grounds for Patriarchy in Turkey? Gender Policy in the Age of AKP
SOUTH EUROPEAN SOCIETY AND POLITICS, vol.16, no.4, pp.555-573, 2011 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 16 Issue: 4
- Publication Date: 2011
- Doi Number: 10.1080/13608746.2011.571919
- Journal Name: SOUTH EUROPEAN SOCIETY AND POLITICS
- Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.555-573
- Keywords: Turkey, gender policy, AKP, feminism, neoliberal-conservative, patriarchy, DEVELOPMENT PARTY, WOMEN, DISCOURSES, ISLAMIST, POLITICS, JUSTICE
- Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
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.