Married to Anatolian Tigers: business masculinities, relationalities, and limits to empowerment

Creative Commons License

Akyuz S., Sayan-Cengiz F., ÇIRAKMAN DEVECİ A., Cindoglu D.

TURKISH STUDIES, cilt.20, sa.2, ss.297-321, 2019 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 20 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/14683849.2018.1524710
  • Dergi Adı: TURKISH STUDIES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.297-321
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Female empowerment, masculinities, entrepreneurship, Turkey, Anatolian Tigers, WOMENS EMPOWERMENT, GENDER, ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper examines business masculinities and relationalities of empowerment in the everyday life experiences of male entrepreneurs and wives of entrepreneurs in three urban centers in Turkey: Gaziantep, Konya and zmir. We take gendered power inequalities as structural and relational, and empowerment as a complex, multifaceted process. Based on a relational understanding of gender roles, we scrutinize men's and women's decision making areas in an attempt to understand normalized and internalized patriarchal values and assumptions, as well as explicit or implicit challenges against such values. We argue that gendered experiences of entrepreneurs and women married to entrepreneurs offer a complementary analysis of nuanced empowerment strategies in the background of seemingly contradictory currents such as economic globalization, transforming masculinities, rising conservatism and reinforced gender hierarchies.