Challenging religious and Secularist Patriarchy Islamist Women s New Activism in Turkey

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2011-01-01

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Aslan Akman, Canan

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Since the late 1990s, following the state’s process of de-politicization and exclusion, educated Islamist women in the urban centers of Turkey have been active in raising Muslim women’s identity consciousness and generating solidarity with those affected by the headscarf ban. In the women’s organizations analyzed in this article, Islamist women are carving out a niche to challenge both secularist and Islamist patriarchal practices and discourse. This article contends that organized Islamist women have become significant actors in autonomously mobilizing religious women—in the political parties and in the Islamic movement—in the democratization process. The Islamist women’s learning process has opened them up to dialogue and cooperation—on gender equality and other liberalization issues—with secular women as well as with other oppressed groups. However, their “feminist” stance creates some dilemmas for Islamist and secular women.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/71924

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Journal of Levantine Studies

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Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Article

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C. Aslan Akman, “Challenging religious and Secularist Patriarchy Islamist Women s New Activism in Turkey,” Journal of Levantine Studies, pp. 103–124, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://levantine-journal.org/product/challenging-religious-and-secularist-patriarchy-islamist-womens-new-activism-in-turkey/.