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Thinking Women, Feminism, and Muslim Identity through Bodies and Space in Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (1): 116–123.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Banu Gökarıksel References Başdaş Begüm . 2017 . “ Unity in Rupture: Women against the Coup Attempt in Turkey .” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 13 , no. 1 : 186 – 88 . cooke miriam . 2001 . Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature . New...
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Pembe Caretta: LGBT Rights Claiming in Antalya, Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 255–258.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Bihter Tomen Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 This essay discusses the emergence, strategies, and challenges faced by Pembe Caretta ( www.facebook.com/pembecarettalgbt ), a grassroots advocacy group in Antalya, a major city in southern Turkey...
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When Women Demand Prayer Space: Women in Mosques Campaign in Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (1): 125–134.
Published: 01 March 2019
... educated, have been gathering in various mosques in Istanbul since October 2017 to address concerns pertaining to women’s use of prayer spaces in Turkey. Some of these concerns include lack of ablution rooms for women and their maintenance; lack of prayer space—especially in smaller mosques—for women...
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“Coming Out of the internet”: Lesbian and Gay Activism and the Internet as a “Digital Closet” in Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (3): 63–88.
Published: 01 November 2012
... 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...
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Politics of Intimacy in Turkey: A Distraction from “Real” Politics?
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 112–121.
Published: 01 March 2016
... children!” (Çetik, Gültekin, and Kuşdemir 2008 ). “Abortion is murder!” (“Erdoğan: Kürtaj bir cinayettir” 2012 ). These are the words of the previous prime minister and current president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whose blunt statements on gender issues have become a characteristic of the Turkish...
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Making Gender Dynamics Visible in the 2016 Coup Attempt in Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 173–174.
Published: 01 March 2017
...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...
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He Is a Lynched Soldier Now: Coup, Militarism, and Masculinity in Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 178–180.
Published: 01 March 2017
...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...
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Castration, Sexual Violence, and Feminist Politics in Post–Coup Attempt Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 181–185.
Published: 01 March 2017
...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...
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Unity in Rupture: Women against the Coup Attempt in Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 186–188.
Published: 01 March 2017
...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...
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Fair to Swear?: Gendered Formulations of Fairness in Football in Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 25–46.
Published: 01 March 2017
...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...
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The New Legal Status of Women in Turkey by Women for Women’s Human Rights (WWHR)
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 148–150.
Published: 01 July 2005
...Zehra Arat The New Legal Status of Women in Turkey , Women for Women’s Human Rights (WWHR) New Legal Status of Women in Turkey . April 2002 . Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2005 148 JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES
The New Legal...
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Gendering Landscapes of War Through the Narratives of Soldiers’ Mothers: Military Service and the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 47–68.
Published: 01 March 2017
... they mostly justify the modernizing mission of the military. Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 military service motherhood East Kurdish conflict space nationalism Turkey “I thought of military service the same way I thought of menopause. Just as it’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 189–193.
Published: 01 March 2017
... by peace. Women are against war” ( fig. 4 ). They were carrying posters drawing attention to the war crimes committed by soldiers against the Kurdish populations of southeastern Turkey—the very soldiers now arrested as coup plotters. The purple color of the banner split the red color of the square painted...
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View articletitled, Are There Women Out There?: Democracy Vigils and the Politics of Representation after the Failed Coup Attempt in <span class="search-highlight">Turkey</span>
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Islamist Mobilization in Turkey: A Study in Vernacular Politics by Jenny B. White
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 144–147.
Published: 01 July 2005
...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...
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Violent Intimacies: Tactile State Power, Sex/Gender Transgression, and the Politics of Touch in Contemporary Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 225–245.
Published: 01 July 2016
...Asli Zengin Abstract This article is about how sex, gender, and sexuality are governed in Turkey at the intersection of intimate contact and mandated encounters with medicolegal institutions and the bodies of sex/gender transgressive people. To explore this question, it brings two institutional...
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Third Space Masculinities: Unnamed Sexualities in Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 288–290.
Published: 01 July 2016
...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...
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Remember, S/He Was Here Once: Mothers Call for Justice and Peace in Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 382–410.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Emine Rezzan Karaman Abstract This article analyzes the construction of motherhood as a form of political agency in Turkey with particular references to the Saturday Mothers and the Peace Mothers, respectively, the mothers of the disappeared and the mothers of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK...
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Beyond Islamic versus Secular Framing: A Critical Analysis of Reproductive Rights Debates in Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 195–218.
Published: 01 July 2017
...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...
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Class and Habitus in the Formation of Gay Identities, Masculinities, and Respectability in Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (2): 244–264.
Published: 01 July 2017
...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...
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Recovering Armenia: The Limits of Belonging in Post-Genocide Turkey
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 386–388.
Published: 01 November 2019
...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...
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