Shaping Gender Policy in Turkey : Grassroots Women Activists, the European Union, and the Turkish State.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Conceptualizing the Actors' Roles -- Theorizing Women's Visibility within the Configuration of the Grassroots Activism, the State, and the EU -- Analysis of Strategies Used by Women's Groups, the EU, and the Turkish State -- Overview of the Book -- 2 Gender Equality, Women's Rights, and Stipulations within the Enlarging EU -- Framing Gender Equality through Hard Laws -- Expanding the Meaning of Gender Equality -- Violence against Women -- Positive Action -- Gender Mainstreaming -- The Intersection of Gender Inequality with Other Inequalities -- Women's Rights and Gendered Citizenship -- 3 Before the 1999 Helsinki Summit: The State's Gender Regime in Turkey -- Ottoman Reforms and the Gendered Subject -- Kemalist Revolution and the Gendered Citizen -- Women amid Political Loyalty and Political Mobilization -- Gender (In)Equality in Laws in the Republic of Turkey -- The Implications of Laws and Women's Lived Experiences, 1923-1999 -- 4 Active Citizenship: Women's Collective Response to the State's Gender Regime in Turkey, 1980-1999 -- The Rise of the Feminist Movement -- Diversity in Women's Activism: Islamist and Kemalist Women -- 5 Aftermath of the 1999 Helsinki Summit: The Role of the EU and the Turkish State in Changing Gender Policies in Turkey -- Brief History of the Relationship between Turkey and the EU -- Europeanization, Conditionality, and Gender Equality -- Gender Equality Reforms, 1999-2005 -- Implementations, Setbacks, and Further Requirements, 2005-2011 -- Emerging Picture of Gender-Equality Reforms -- 6 Women's Grassroots Activism in Changing Gender Policies after the 1999 Helsinki Summit -- Taking Advantage of the EU Membership Process -- Relations with the EU -- Utilizing the UN Meetings for Policy Changes in Turkey.

7 Conclusion: Sustained-Pressure in Shifting Winds -- Appendix A: Interviews -- Feminist Women's Organizations -- Kemalist Women's Organizations -- islamist Women's Organizations -- Appendix B: Names of Women's Organizations and Journals in Turkish and English -- Organizations -- Journals -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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.

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