...-rights activists who are closely affiliated with their governments at times strategically adopt a “gender justice” framing, as opposed to “gender equality,” to appeal to more conservative sectors of their society. This strategy can have important policy implications and lead to shifts in political...

... decade of the 2000s, Turkey has undergone rapid de-democratization as a result of AKP’s election victories, which have brought with them a major backlash against gender equality policies. Moreover, a new political discourse constructed by the government has replaced the concept of gender equality...

... that there is no gender equality in Arab society in Israel, a conviction stronger among male teachers. Transition of Arab society from traditional to modern society has not eliminated the patriarchal regime. Improved education of women and their professional promotion have not ensured gender equality. Changes...

... papers over gender injustices. Both Kurdish and Turkish activists stress the necessity of understanding that a just and sustainable peace must include gender equality and that gender justice cannot be achieved in times of war. Thus feminist convergences in Kurdish and Turkish activism present peace...

..., this analysis of the much celebrated Family Code and its two main goals-“doing justice to women” and “preserving men’s dignity”-and of the regime’s ambivalent discourse on gender equality as defined by the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) paints a more realistic...

..., France, or Israel. The politics of religious self-assertion, gender inequality, and sexual conservatism has been all the more attractive, because secularized elites’ promises of equality, whether held out by the AIU or by Labor Zionists, have proved hollow for most Moroccan Jews. At the same time...

... limited rights enjoyed by men in autocratic countries brings a country closer to democracy” (Ottaway 2004:9). Equally, Moghadam indicates that the empowerment of women and the setting up of gender equality are fundamental to democracy. And the significance of democracy...

... masculinity in Baʾath ideology ensures the preservation of gendered laws that perceive women as less equal. While teasing out this aspect, this study seeks to explore the status of women in the Syrian Constitution (1973) and laws by investigating the role of the state as a male protector in which women’s...

... in Syrian melodrama connoted the rise of more equal gender relations, which symbolized a pluralistic political order. Amid the uprising, those outwardly embracing the regime narrative insist that they are focusing on societal norms rather than politics. This study is based on analysis of miniseries from...

.... I demonstrate, however, that the discourse about women grew more Iraqi-centric in the 1940s and 50s. I also argue that the changes in the representations of women mirrored the radicalization of the Iraqi intelligentsia. While during the interwar period, the conversation about gender roles was mostly...

..., purposes, and ideals of gender equality) informs the boundaries, commitments, and capacities of the field of gender studies and its practitioners’ understanding of resistance in Turkey. The recent antigender atmosphere may make them feel downtrodden, silenced, and vulnerable in personal and professional...

... participation of women in all spheres of national life.” Against the backdrop of these constitutional guarantees and other significant commitments, various initiatives have been taken to promote gender equality and to enable women to duly take part in national development. Numerous committees...

... to posit secularism as the guarantor of gender equality. In Sex and Secularism Joan Wallach Scott provocatively challenges this association. Scott argues that the claim that secularism ensures women’s emancipation is historically false. Moreover, this claim has functioned to conceal the centrality...

... and gender equality. During the twentieth century Iran witnessed two revolutions: the Constitutional Revolution of 1905 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Women played an influential role in the mobilization of both revolutions, but they were the first group to be ignored in their aftermath. Moreover...

... community uses gender equality as a significant attribute that differentiates them from the dominant Sunni culture. Fazilet Ahu Özmen argues in her chapter, however, that because of fears of assimilation by Sunni Islam, the community has paradoxically become more introverted, increasing the importance...

... and occupation on women and the role of women in making peace an option. The rather restrictive view of gender equality that saw women and men entrenched in specific, unchallenged gender roles was symptom- atic of the limited range of debate at the conference. Minister of State...

...Valentine M. Moghadam Reference Walby Sylvia . 2004 . “ The European Union and Gender Equality: Emergent Varieties of Gender Regime .” Social Politics 11 , no. 1 : 4 – 29 . Is there anything to criticize? The book jumps over several decades of urbanization, nuclearization...

.... This perception produces the kind of hate reserved for people who allow themselves to be victimized and refuse to be saved or show appropriate gratitude toward liberatory efforts. The US culture war over Islam hits Islamic feminists—those who argue and work for gender equality within the framework of Islam...

.... It constantly struggles to open new spaces and find creative methods to further its vision of gender equality. The collective faces a range of external and internal challenges. The external challenges include systematic government oppression of civil society, especially women’s rights activists...

... and enact their feminist commitments from within a speaking position that confronts the secular/pious dichotomy through a bold emphasis on intersectional feminist lenses and the ideal of a gender-equal society. They witnessed the lifting of the headscarf bans in the public sector in the post-2008 era, which...