Article detail · 2008
Party Politics of the AKP (2002–2007) and the Predicaments of Women at the Intersection of the Westernist, Islamist and Feminist Discourses in Turkey1
- Year
- 2008
- Type
- article
Data source split
- YÖKSİS YÖKSİS article record
- YÖKSİS venue British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
- Catalog match (ISSN) British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
- OpenAlex OpenAlex enrichment (abstract, citations, topics)
Abstract
OpenAlex · English
Celebrating the World Women's Day and initiating a conference for promoting Turkey's integration to Europe on the one hand, and discussing the discrimination against women on the ground of human rights and even harbouring the radical protest from left-wing as well as the Islamist women on the other, the women auxiliaries of AKP (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, Justice and Development Party) seemingly position themselves at the very intersection of various political discourses including Westernism, feminism, liberalism and Islamism. Articulating these disparate discourses, however, requires a meticulous selectivity and a specific political strategy. Is this discursive selectivity inevitable for an overtly religious party in a modern nation-state where secularism and integration into the European civilisation have dominated the state ideology since its foundation? What are the reactions of outsiders, especially of European countries? More specifically, what are the repercussions of this strategic mentality in terms of the women's question? Does it attract various women's groups and thus create solidarity among different voices? Or on the contrary does it not truncate or even silence the demands of women? This paper discusses the women politicians in the AKP as well as its policies on gender equality and relations. It aims to analyze the party on three angles: women's representations and visibility, changes in political ideology and rhetoric, and the adaptation of party organization to the demands of women.
Topics
Citations
OpenAlex cited_by_count. Not a WoS or Scopus citation count; those sources have no separate column here.
94 citations
OpenAlex cited_by_count (cache / database)
29 publications in the local catalog that cite this work (OpenAlex reference match; not the full global list).
- Strengthening the Family Policies in Turkey Managing the Social Question and Armoring Conservative Neoliberal Populism 2015
- Who Is Patriarchal? The Correlates of Patriarchy in Turkey 2021
- Whither feminist alliance? Secular feminists and Islamist women in Turkey 2017
- Whither feminist alliance? Secular feminists and Islamist women in Turkey 2017
- Who Represents Women in Turkey? An Analysis of Gender Difference in Private Bill Sponsorship in the 2011-15 Turkish Parliament 2019
- Who Represents Women in Turkey? An Analysis of Gender Difference in Private Bill Sponsorship in the 2011–15 Turkish Parliament 2018
- The potential for dialogical transversal politics and coalitional solidarities in the contemporary women's movement in Turkey 2020
- The adultery and the headscarf debates in Turkey Fusing EU niversal and alternative modernities 2011
- Europeanization without substance? EU–Turkey relations and gender equality in employment 2019
- The rise and fall of support for the Istanbul Convention: Understanding the case of KADEM 2022