Funda Hülagü is currently on the teaching staff at the University of Marburg, Germany. She was previously Assistant Professor at Maltepe University, Turkey and Mersin University, Turkey. She has published over 10 peer reviewed articles, including in Science & Society and Journal für Entwicklungspolitik.

This book provides a critical but constructive engagement with feminist theory, coupled with a powerful critique of the mainstream/liberal approaches to the state-society relations. Thereby, it could be considered as an important contribution to the development of a “materialist-cum-feminist theory of state” by adopting a relational perspective to enhance our understanding of “the limits and promises of the feminist interventions in and against the state” in general, and with a detailed critical analysis of “the capitalist-patriarchal gender selectivities of the state” in Turkey in particular.

• 1 Introduction2 Liberal Sources3 Islamist Actors 4 Female Contenders 5 State, Violence and Women in Turkey 6 Conclusion

Funda Hülagü is currently on the teaching staff at the University of Marburg, Germany. She was previously Assistant Professor at Maltepe University, Turkey and Mersin University, Turkey. She has published over 10 peer reviewed articles, including in Science & Society and Journal für Entwicklungspolitik.

This book provides a critical but constructive engagement with feminist theory, coupled with a powerful critique of the mainstream/liberal approaches to the state-society relations. Thereby, it could be considered as an important contribution to the development of a “materialist-cum-feminist theory of state” by adopting a relational perspective to enhance our understanding of “the limits and promises of the feminist interventions in and against the state” in general, and with a detailed critical analysis of “the capitalist-patriarchal gender selectivities of the state” in Turkey in particular.

• 1 Introduction2 Liberal Sources3 Islamist Actors 4 Female Contenders 5 State, Violence and Women in Turkey 6 Conclusion