New Grounds for Patriarchy in Turkey? Gender Policy in the Age of AKP

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2011-01-01

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Cosar, Simten
Yegenoglu, Metin

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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.

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Turkey, Gender policy, AKP, Feminism, Neoliberal-conservative, Patriarchy

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/64426

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SOUTH EUROPEAN SOCIETY AND POLITICS

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https://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2011.571919

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Department of Sociology, Article

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S. Cosar and M. Yegenoglu, “New Grounds for Patriarchy in Turkey? Gender Policy in the Age of AKP,” SOUTH EUROPEAN SOCIETY AND POLITICS, pp. 555–573, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/64426.