Rural development and women's empowerment : the case of rural women's organizations in Turkey

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Furat, Mina

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This Dissertation analyzes the conditions, problems and potential of rural women’s empowerment through a sample of rural women’s organizations (two women’s cooperative, seven rural development cooperative and one village women associaton) with interpreting DAWN iniative and GAD approach with a socialist feminist perspective. In this study, it is stated that the agricultural sector policies and rural development policy were constructed in relation with the conditions of underdevelopment and thus, in relation with the agreements with IMF, WTO and IPARD Programme of EU which enforced the decreasing of agricultural sector subsidies. It is notable that these policies are formulated with an aim of increasing the influence and significance of capitalist relations in agricultural sector and rural areas without taking precautions for the survival of small sized farming households in rural areas. Despite these general influences of underdevelopment to Turkish Agricultural Sector and patriarchal gender assumptions, these women’s organizations could be successful to some extent empowering their members with the recognized dimensions of empowerment such as; psychological, economical, social, organizational and political. All these dimensions are interrelated with each other. In this study, it was observed that while economic empowerment and psychological empowerment is the base of all other dimensions of empowerment, social empowerment and organizational empowerment are the most dynamic processes of empowerment and political empowerment is hardest dimension or outcome to achieve.

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Rural women, Women in agriculture, Women farmers, Social work with rural women, Women, Women

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615576/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22279

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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M. Furat, “ Rural development and women’s empowerment : the case of rural women’s organizations in Turkey,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2013.