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oapen-20.500.12657-462572023-02-01T09:02:29Z Shaping Gender Policy in Turkey Marshall, Gül Aldıkaçtı Political Science Ngos (non-governmental Organizations) Technology & Engineering Agriculture Social Science Women's Studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPW Political activism::JPWH Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TV Agriculture & farming bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSJ Gender studies, gender groups::JFSJ1 Gender studies: women Timely analysis of the ways in which women grassroots activists, the European Union, and the Turkish state are involved in shaping gender policies in Turkey.Shaping Gender Policy in Turkey uncovers how, why, and to what extent Turkish women, in addition to the Turkish state and the European Union, have been involved in gender policy changes in Turkey. Through analysis of the role of multiple actors at the subnational, national, and supranational levels, Gül Aldıkaçtı Marshall provides a detailed account of policy diffusion and feminist involvement in policymaking. Contextualizing the meaning of gender equality and multiple approaches to women’s rights, she highlights a pivotal but neglected dimension of scholarship on Turkey’s candidacy for European Union membership. This book represents one of the few works providing a multilevel analysis of gender policy in predominantly Muslim countries, and highlights Turkey’s role at a time of swift structural changes to several political regimes in the Middle East.Gül Aldıkaçtı Marshall is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Louisville. 2021-01-23T04:30:46Z 2021-01-23T04:30:46Z 2013 book 9781438447735 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46257 eng SUNY Press Open Access application/epub+zip n/a external_content.epub State University of New York Press SUNY Press 10.1353/book.24199 10.1353/book.24199 1e003940-c9f9-4f5d-b1a0-1cfa16a3eae7 9781438447735 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) SUNY Press 187 open access
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Timely analysis of the ways in which women grassroots activists, the European Union, and the Turkish state are involved in shaping gender policies in Turkey.Shaping Gender Policy in Turkey uncovers how, why, and to what extent Turkish women, in addition to the Turkish state and the European Union, have been involved in gender policy changes in Turkey. Through analysis of the role of multiple actors at the subnational, national, and supranational levels, Gül Aldıkaçtı Marshall provides a detailed account of policy diffusion and feminist involvement in policymaking. Contextualizing the meaning of gender equality and multiple approaches to women’s rights, she highlights a pivotal but neglected dimension of scholarship on Turkey’s candidacy for European Union membership. This book represents one of the few works providing a multilevel analysis of gender policy in predominantly Muslim countries, and highlights Turkey’s role at a time of swift structural changes to several political regimes in the Middle East.Gül Aldıkaçtı Marshall is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Louisville.
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