"I’m here too, Girlfriend…" : reclaiming public spaces for the gendering of civil society in Turkey

Having encountered many deep pot-holes along its long road to democracy since the 1960s, Turkey’s renewed efforts to secure EU membership as of the late 1980s allowed it to take advantage of externally funded initiatives focusing on gender equality, minority rights and civil society formation during...

Verfasser: Mushaben, Joyce Marie
Urheber: Zentrum für Europäische Geschlechterstudien (ZEUGS) (Herausgeber)
Dokumenttypen:Arbeitspapier
Medientypen:Text
Erscheinungsdatum:2015
Publikation in MIAMI:02.02.2015
Datum der letzten Änderung:09.03.2020
Quelle:Working Papers / Zentrum für Europäische Geschlechterstudien (ZEUGS), Working Paper No. 7
Angaben zur Ausgabe:[Electronic ed.]
Schlagwörter:Gender; Civil Society; Turkey; European Union; Women’s Movement Gender; Zivilgesellschaft; Türkei; Europäische Union; Frauenbewegung
Fachgebiet (DDC):320: Politikwissenschaft
Lizenz:InC 1.0
Sprache:English
Format:PDF-Dokument
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-20399490080
Permalink:https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-20399490080
Onlinezugriff:arbeitspapier_zeugs_2015_7.pdf

Having encountered many deep pot-holes along its long road to democracy since the 1960s, Turkey’s renewed efforts to secure EU membership as of the late 1980s allowed it to take advantage of externally funded initiatives focusing on gender equality, minority rights and civil society formation during the 1990s. By this means Europeanization as well as generation change and new communication technologies caused the formation of a new form of civil society, in which women are more present than ever and for the first time have the potential to alter the political system radically.