This book explores the politics of organized Muslim women in Turkey and analyzes their coalitions with other—secular feminist, Kurdish, etc.—women’s movements from an intersectional perspective.
Ayşe Dursun is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria. She does research on gender and politics, intersectionality, gender equality policies, social reproduction and care, social and women’s movements, and migration. She has published in a number of peer-reviewed journals including German Politics and Society, Historical Social Research, and Journal of Gender Studies. Ayşe Dursun is currently a steering committee member of the European Consortium for Political Research’s (ECPR) standing group on Gender and Politics..
Innehållsförteckning
1. Introduction.- 2. Gender Relations and Women’s Movements in Turkey.- 3. Patriarchy, Women’s Movements, and Coalitions: An Intersectional Framework.- 4. Intersectional Experiences with Structural Inequality and Privilege.- 5. Political Organization and Mobilization.- 6. Organized Muslim Women in Coalitions: Possibilities and Obstacles.- 7. Difficult but Necessary: Outlook for Women’s Coalitions (Research).