FEMINISM AS NEW “META-POLITICS”: WOMEN’S MOVEMENT IN TÜRKİYE BEYOND ALL IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL DISPOSITIONS

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2023-12-7

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Konuralp, Özge

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This dissertation aims to investigate the general condition of women’s movement which proves its great potential to overcome the prevailing historical ideological and political cleavages among different women’s groups and put women’s rights and gender equality onto the political agenda of Türkiye. Women’s movement, not only in Türkiye but worldwide, has been standing as one of the strongest movements, which is evident in the achievements that the movement gained throughout centuries. Given the fact that women’s movement is not fully independent from the historical ideological and political cleavages among women’s organizations, the main research question of this dissertation was designated as, whether women’s organizations and women’s movement, who claim to address “all women”, aims to and can achieve to overcome the ideological cleavages among themselves. By taking into consideration women’s movements’ important potential to build up an overarching public sphere including all different identities, this dissertation also investigates women’s organizations diverse standing towards “feminism” and different point of views among women representing different generations. To this end, this dissertation is based upon the in-depth semi-structured interviews held with 56 representatives of 25 different women’s organizations with diverse political standings (including secular, liberal, feminist/reformist, socialist, Kemalist and Islamic women’s organizations) in Türkiye between 2020-2021. What has been discovered that, women’s movement does not only have a great potential to overcome the ideological and political cleavages among different women’s groups but also has the great potential to offer a new understanding of “meta-politics” through extending the limits of “feminism”.

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Women’s Movement, Women’s Organizations, Feminism, Meta-politics, Interaction

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/106361

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis