From early modernization to authoritarian politics : gender climate in Turkey and Russia

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Doğangün, Gökten

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This dissertation attempts to examine how and why the gender politics has transformed towards neo-conservatism in Turkey and towards neo-traditionalism Russia in the recent decades. Despite a long history of women’s rights in both Turkey and Russia, neo-conservative and neo-traditional approaches have been emerging in both countries, particularly after the access of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Vladimir Putin to power. In examining this transformation, the main focus is put on the gender climate, which mainly shapes around the process of hegemony constitution. It is concluded that while modernization attempts by the Republican and Bolshevik revolutions gave the way to the adoption of the principle of women’s equality, authoritarian tendencies, which have been appearing under the rule of Prime Minister Erdoğan and President Putin in the recent decade, have given rise to re-focus on biological determinism under the conditions of neo-liberalism, the rise of political Islam and the rise of the Orthodox Church.

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Women's rights, Women's rights, Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12617403/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/23626

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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G. Doğangün, “From early modernization to authoritarian politics : gender climate in Turkey and Russia,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2014.