...Meltem Şafak Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey . Lerna Ekmekçioğlu . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2016 . 222 pages. isbn 9780804796101 . Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 The Armenian...

...Seda Saluk Abstract This article examines the discourses and strategies used by reproductive rights activists in Turkey to counter the state’s antiabortion policies. Drawing on a critical genealogical analysis, the article first traces the concept of “bodily autonomy” in feminist mobilizations...

...Azadeh Kian [email protected] Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table Mona Tajali Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press , 2022 288 pages. isbn 9781474499460 . Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s...

... documented thus far. Antigender campaigns can easily infiltrate Middle Eastern and/or Muslim-majority contexts in which feminists and queers have long struggled to transform societies, cultures, and states. In Turkey a state-led antigender movement has been unfolding, with burdensome outcomes for women...

... ) writes, women Kurdish fighters are integrated and often serve as military commanders in the “fierce fight against ISIS,” which also “poses important challenges to feminist peace theorizing.” Women in Turkey who want freedom in their personal lives, including Muslims, have a particular stake in defending...

... the metaphor of the Internet as a digital closet as it relates to collegiate lesbian and gay activism. The conclusion reflects on the significance and functions of this media metaphor for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and transsexual agency and subjectivities in Turkey, suggesting similar venues...

...-liberalism and Neo-conservatism in Contemporary Turkey .” Women’s Studies International Forum 41 , no. 1 : 14 – 23 . Açıksöz Salih Can . 2012 . “ Sacrificial Limbs of Sovereignty: Disabled Veterans, Masculinity, and Nationalist Politics in Turkey .” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 26...

...Banu Gökarıksel Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 On July 15, 2016, an otherwise ordinary Friday night for citizens of Turkey was disrupted by images, sounds, and situations that have, unfortunately, become less extraordinary in recent decades: a coup...

...Salih Can Açıksöz Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 The violence that unfolded during the failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, has shaken Turkey’s political culture on many levels, including the relationship among gender, militarism, and nationalism...

...Zeynep Kurtuluş Korkman References Acar Feride , and Altunok Gülbanu . 2013 . “ The ‘Politics of Intimate’ at the Intersection of Neo-liberalism and Neo-conservatism in Contemporary Turkey .” Women’s Studies International Forum 41 , no. 1 : 14 – 23 . Açıksöz Salih...

...Begüm Başdaş References Amnesty International . 2016 . “ Turkey: Independent Monitors Must Be Allowed to Access Detainees amid Torture Allegations .” July 24 . www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/07/turkey-independent-monitors-must-be-allowed-to-access-detainees-amid-torture-allegations...

...Yağmur Nuhrat Abstract This article focuses on swearing in football chants in Turkey to demonstrate that fans construct a specifically masculine notion of fairness that diverges from the universalizing ideal of fair play. I argue that the Turkish Football Federation’s (TFF) clubs’ and mainstream...

...Zehra Arat Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005 The New Legal Status of Women in Turkey , Women for Women’s Human Rights (WWHR) New Legal Status of Women in Turkey . April 2002 . 148  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES The New Legal...

... ). The Ottoman elite identified a premodern Muslim and non-Muslim subject (including Arabs, Armenians, Kurds, and Bulgarians, among others) whom the Ottoman Turkish nation would civilize (Makdisi 2002 ). Turkey, on the other hand, labeled the predominantly Kurdish areas of the country backward, tribal...

...Christian Pond Islamist Mobilization in Turkey: A Study in Vernacular Politics , White Jenny B. . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2002 . xii + 299 pp. including chapter notes, bibliography and index. $35.00 cloth, $22.50 paperback. Copyright © 2005 Association...

...Esin Düzel Kurdish Life in Contemporary Turkey is quite timely. Currently, as peace negotiations take place between the Turkish state and the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (Partiya Karkên Kurdistan or PKK), public discussions center on human rights violations and undemocratic policies. Grabolle...

... history in particular. Tales from the Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey Anastasia M. Ashman and Jennifer Eaton Gökmen, eds. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2006. Pp. 293. ISBN 1580051553. Reviewed by Ann Evans Larimore, Professor Emerita...

...Iklim Goksel Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Grounded in everyday life, the practice of male same-sex relations is neither uncommon nor a dominant trend but rather a renegotiated space for many young men in Turkey today. This unnamed practice creates...

...Ana Frank; Ayşe Betül Çelik Abstract Reproductive rights are shaped by different political ideologies and remain a hotly contested policy issue in most parts of the world. In Turkey the disputes concerning these rights have grown since 2002, when a conservative government assumed power. Analyzing...

...Haktan Ural; Fatma Umut Beşpınar Abstract This article examines how gay men engage with masculine respectability in urban Turkey. Our analysis of twenty-four in-depth interviews in Ankara shows that gay men’s self-presentation generally conforms to the expectations of masculine appearance...