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The author draws attention to the strong state tradition and the
pluralistic society that both prevailed in Turkey. He argues that
the Turkish state tradition envisages centralization, social
cohesion and an obedient political culture. Through the
modernization process of the last century, it has tried to change
the society from top to down, and built an ideological and
unitarian public sphere. However, the transition to multi-party
system in 1950 and the liberalization policies that followed in the
post-1980s have prepared the ground for different social movements
to come into existence in the same public arena. Social movements
which developed particularly among Kurds, Alevis and women
emphasize social diversity, pluralism, participation, limited
authority, freedom and human rights. They, thus, have paved the way
for the transformation of the ideological public sphere into a
plural and a civil public domain. The author follows the traces of
all these developments from the Ottoman Empire to the last decades
of the Republican Turkey. Moving from the case of Turkey he makes
an important contribution to the literature on various issues such
as civil society, public sphere, modernization, democracy, and
social movements.
Focusing on three important interrelated issues, Women and Civil
Society in Turkey challenges the classical definition, developed in
the West, of civil society as an equivalent of the public sphere in
which women are excluded. First it shows how feminist movements
have developed a new definition of civil society to include women.
Second it draws attention to the role of women in the modernization
of Turkey with special reference to the debate on the possibility
of an indigenous feminist movement. Finally, it underlines the
contribution of feminist, Islamic and Kurdish women's movements in
the transition from an ideologically constructed, uniform public
sphere to a multi-public domain. Giving attention to the influence
of diverse women's movements over Turkish political values this
book sheds light into the issue of how a feminine civil society has
been constructed as part of a plural public space in Turkey. A-mer
Aaha argues that this new public realm is the product of values and
institutions which have been developed by diverse women's groups
who have succeeded in eliminating the traditional barricades
between public and domestic spheres and in steering women into
public life without sacrificing their own values.
Focusing on three important interrelated issues, Women and Civil
Society in Turkey challenges the classical definition, developed in
the West, of civil society as an equivalent of the public sphere in
which women are excluded. First it shows how feminist movements
have developed a new definition of civil society to include women.
Second it draws attention to the role of women in the modernization
of Turkey with special reference to the debate on the possibility
of an indigenous feminist movement. Finally, it underlines the
contribution of feminist, Islamic and Kurdish women's movements in
the transition from an ideologically constructed, uniform public
sphere to a multi-public domain. Giving attention to the influence
of diverse women's movements over Turkish political values this
book sheds light into the issue of how a feminine civil society has
been constructed as part of a plural public space in Turkey. A-mer
Aaha argues that this new public realm is the product of values and
institutions which have been developed by diverse women's groups
who have succeeded in eliminating the traditional barricades
between public and domestic spheres and in steering women into
public life without sacrificing their own values.
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