Yeşim Arat
Biographic Data
| ID | 282194 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yeşim Arat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yeşim |
| FAMILY NAME | Arat |
| SIGNATURE | ARAT Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bogaziçi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3153-7989 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 238 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Democratic Backsliding and the Instrumentalization of Women's Rights in Turkey
This article examines the instrumentalization of women's rights and the transformation of the gender rights regime in the context of democratic backsliding in Turkey. I show how the Islamically rooted Justice and Development Party governments and their allies used women's rights in constructing authoritarian rule and promoting a conservative gender agenda. The governing elites had different needs at different political stages and instrumentalized…
Naher Und Mittlerer Osten / Near and Middle East
Turkey Between Democracy and Authoritarianism
Since the 1980 military coup in Turkey, much of the history and politics of the country can be described as a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. In this accessible account of the country's politics, society and economics, the authors delve into the causes and processes of what has been called a democratic 'backsliding'. In order to explore this, YeÅŸim Arat and Åževket Pamuk, two of Turkey's leading social scientists, focus on the m…
Men’s Coups, Women’s Troubles
We are lucky that the July 15, 2016, coup was aborted in Turkey. Coups in Turkey have undermined democracy, trampled on civil rights and human rights, dismantled political organizations, and bred violence. Men planned and executed coups even though women and everybody else suffered from them. The July 15 coup was no exception. Both the coup makers and those against whom they attempted to wage the coup were patriarchal men who shaped women’s inter…
Islamist Women and Feminist Concerns in Contemporary Turkey: Prospects for Women's Rights and Solidarity
Kamer, a women's center and an experiment in cultivating cosmopolitan norms”
Violence, Resistance, and Gezi Park
As a student of politics whose primary research interest is in women's political participation in Turkey, my engagement with the study of violence is through the lens of gender. In gender studies, “violence” is arguably the most important critical concept for the articulation of the personal as the political. Women's recognition that violence in their personal lives and intimate relationships needed to be problematized in the political realm and …
Religion, Politics and Gender Equality in Turkey: Implications of a democratic paradox
This article examines the gendered implications of the intertwining of Islam and politics that took shape after the process of democratisation in Turkey had brought a political party with an Islamist background to power. This development revived the spectre of restrictive sex roles for women. The country is thus confronted with a democratic paradox: the expansion of religious freedoms accompanying potential and/or real threats to gender equality.…
Women's Rights and Islam in Turkish politics: The Civil Code Amendment
Literature on Turkey’s 2001 civil code amendment, which expanded women’s rights, is limited to reports on the code’s achievements and failings. This article examines the parliamentary debates behind the amendment to shed light on the contemporary Islamist-secularist polarization in Turkey. It shows that women’s rights are still a means to pursue the goals of secularist modernization. They shape the power struggle over what the role of religion in…
Women's rights as human rights: The Turkish case
Group-Differentiated Rights and the Liberal Democratic State: Rethinking the Headscarf Controversy in Turkey
The development of liberalism with both the courage and the capacity to engage itself with a different world, one in which its principles are neither well understood nor widely held, in which indeed it is, in most places, a minority creed, alien and suspect, is not only possible, it is necessary.-Clifford Geertz. 2000.Available Light.Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, p. 258.Over the past two decades, the debate over multiculturalism ch…
Democracy and Women in Turkey: In Defense of Liberalism
Journal Article Democracy and Women in Turkey: In Defense of Liberalism Get access YEşIM ARAT YEşIM ARAT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 6, Issue 3, Fall 1999, Pages 370–387, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/6.3.370 Published: 01 October 1999
A Woman Prime Minister in Turkey: Did It Matter
This paper examines if Tansu filler, the first woman prime minister in Turkey, made a difference in how political power was used in that country. Even though women leaders have signaled change, they have also been known to perpetuate the status quo. Tansu (filler has perpetuated the status quo with her opportunistic quest for power and dismissal of women's issues when she was in office; yet, she has also expanded the framework within which politi…
A woman prime minister in Turkey: Did it matter
Feminists, Islamists, and Political Change in Turkey
This paper examines how some feminist and Islamist women in Turkey helped bring about change in political values during the past decade. The traditional political culture upheld statist, corporatist (as opposed to liberal, individualist) norms. The state controlled religion in the name of secularism and limited democracy within the confines of formal equality. Both feminists and Islamists contested traditional political values by insisting on the…
On Gender and Citizenship in Turkey
The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire . Leslie Peirce The Women's Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press . Beth Baron
Toward a democratic society
Women's Studies in Turkey: From Kemalism to Feminism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Islamic Fundamentalism and Women in Turkey
Patriarchal Paradox: Women Politicians in Turkey
Democratic Backsliding and the Instrumentalization of Women's Rights in Turkey
This article examines the instrumentalization of women's rights and the transformation of the gender rights regime in the context of democratic backsliding in Turkey. I show how the Islamically rooted Justice and Development Party governments and their allies used women's rights in constructing authoritarian rule and promoting a conservative gender agenda. The governing elites had different needs at different political stages and instrumentalized…
Feminists, Islamists, and Political Change in Turkey
This paper examines how some feminist and Islamist women in Turkey helped bring about change in political values during the past decade. The traditional political culture upheld statist, corporatist (as opposed to liberal, individualist) norms. The state controlled religion in the name of secularism and limited democracy within the confines of formal equality. Both feminists and Islamists contested traditional political values by insisting on the…
Toward a democratic society
Religion, Politics and Gender Equality in Turkey: Implications of a democratic paradox
This article examines the gendered implications of the intertwining of Islam and politics that took shape after the process of democratisation in Turkey had brought a political party with an Islamist background to power. This development revived the spectre of restrictive sex roles for women. The country is thus confronted with a democratic paradox: the expansion of religious freedoms accompanying potential and/or real threats to gender equality.…
Violence, Resistance, and Gezi Park
As a student of politics whose primary research interest is in women's political participation in Turkey, my engagement with the study of violence is through the lens of gender. In gender studies, “violence” is arguably the most important critical concept for the articulation of the personal as the political. Women's recognition that violence in their personal lives and intimate relationships needed to be problematized in the political realm and …
Women's Rights and Islam in Turkish politics: The Civil Code Amendment
Literature on Turkey’s 2001 civil code amendment, which expanded women’s rights, is limited to reports on the code’s achievements and failings. This article examines the parliamentary debates behind the amendment to shed light on the contemporary Islamist-secularist polarization in Turkey. It shows that women’s rights are still a means to pursue the goals of secularist modernization. They shape the power struggle over what the role of religion in…
Islamist Women and Feminist Concerns in Contemporary Turkey: Prospects for Women's Rights and Solidarity
Women's Studies in Turkey: From Kemalism to Feminism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Group-Differentiated Rights and the Liberal Democratic State: Rethinking the Headscarf Controversy in Turkey
The development of liberalism with both the courage and the capacity to engage itself with a different world, one in which its principles are neither well understood nor widely held, in which indeed it is, in most places, a minority creed, alien and suspect, is not only possible, it is necessary.-Clifford Geertz. 2000.Available Light.Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, p. 258.Over the past two decades, the debate over multiculturalism ch…
Democracy and Women in Turkey: In Defense of Liberalism
Journal Article Democracy and Women in Turkey: In Defense of Liberalism Get access YEşIM ARAT YEşIM ARAT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 6, Issue 3, Fall 1999, Pages 370–387, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/6.3.370 Published: 01 October 1999
Islamic Fundamentalism and Women in Turkey
Women's rights as human rights: The Turkish case
Men’s Coups, Women’s Troubles
We are lucky that the July 15, 2016, coup was aborted in Turkey. Coups in Turkey have undermined democracy, trampled on civil rights and human rights, dismantled political organizations, and bred violence. Men planned and executed coups even though women and everybody else suffered from them. The July 15 coup was no exception. Both the coup makers and those against whom they attempted to wage the coup were patriarchal men who shaped women’s inter…
Kamer, a women's center and an experiment in cultivating cosmopolitan norms”
Naher Und Mittlerer Osten / Near and Middle East
A Woman Prime Minister in Turkey: Did It Matter
This paper examines if Tansu filler, the first woman prime minister in Turkey, made a difference in how political power was used in that country. Even though women leaders have signaled change, they have also been known to perpetuate the status quo. Tansu (filler has perpetuated the status quo with her opportunistic quest for power and dismissal of women's issues when she was in office; yet, she has also expanded the framework within which politi…
Patriarchal Paradox: Women Politicians in Turkey
Islamic Fundamentalism and Women in Turkey
Women's Studies in Turkey: From Kemalism to Feminism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Toward a democratic society
On Gender and Citizenship in Turkey
The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire . Leslie Peirce The Women's Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press . Beth Baron
A Woman Prime Minister in Turkey: Did It Matter
This paper examines if Tansu filler, the first woman prime minister in Turkey, made a difference in how political power was used in that country. Even though women leaders have signaled change, they have also been known to perpetuate the status quo. Tansu (filler has perpetuated the status quo with her opportunistic quest for power and dismissal of women's issues when she was in office; yet, she has also expanded the framework within which politi…
A woman prime minister in Turkey: Did it matter
Feminists, Islamists, and Political Change in Turkey
This paper examines how some feminist and Islamist women in Turkey helped bring about change in political values during the past decade. The traditional political culture upheld statist, corporatist (as opposed to liberal, individualist) norms. The state controlled religion in the name of secularism and limited democracy within the confines of formal equality. Both feminists and Islamists contested traditional political values by insisting on the…
Democracy and Women in Turkey: In Defense of Liberalism
Journal Article Democracy and Women in Turkey: In Defense of Liberalism Get access YEşIM ARAT YEşIM ARAT Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 6, Issue 3, Fall 1999, Pages 370–387, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/6.3.370 Published: 01 October 1999
Women's rights as human rights: The Turkish case
Group-Differentiated Rights and the Liberal Democratic State: Rethinking the Headscarf Controversy in Turkey
The development of liberalism with both the courage and the capacity to engage itself with a different world, one in which its principles are neither well understood nor widely held, in which indeed it is, in most places, a minority creed, alien and suspect, is not only possible, it is necessary.-Clifford Geertz. 2000.Available Light.Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, p. 258.Over the past two decades, the debate over multiculturalism ch…
Religion, Politics and Gender Equality in Turkey: Implications of a democratic paradox
This article examines the gendered implications of the intertwining of Islam and politics that took shape after the process of democratisation in Turkey had brought a political party with an Islamist background to power. This development revived the spectre of restrictive sex roles for women. The country is thus confronted with a democratic paradox: the expansion of religious freedoms accompanying potential and/or real threats to gender equality.…
Women's Rights and Islam in Turkish politics: The Civil Code Amendment
Literature on Turkey’s 2001 civil code amendment, which expanded women’s rights, is limited to reports on the code’s achievements and failings. This article examines the parliamentary debates behind the amendment to shed light on the contemporary Islamist-secularist polarization in Turkey. It shows that women’s rights are still a means to pursue the goals of secularist modernization. They shape the power struggle over what the role of religion in…
Violence, Resistance, and Gezi Park
As a student of politics whose primary research interest is in women's political participation in Turkey, my engagement with the study of violence is through the lens of gender. In gender studies, “violence” is arguably the most important critical concept for the articulation of the personal as the political. Women's recognition that violence in their personal lives and intimate relationships needed to be problematized in the political realm and …
Kamer, a women's center and an experiment in cultivating cosmopolitan norms”
Islamist Women and Feminist Concerns in Contemporary Turkey: Prospects for Women's Rights and Solidarity
Men’s Coups, Women’s Troubles
We are lucky that the July 15, 2016, coup was aborted in Turkey. Coups in Turkey have undermined democracy, trampled on civil rights and human rights, dismantled political organizations, and bred violence. Men planned and executed coups even though women and everybody else suffered from them. The July 15 coup was no exception. Both the coup makers and those against whom they attempted to wage the coup were patriarchal men who shaped women’s inter…
Naher Und Mittlerer Osten / Near and Middle East
Turkey Between Democracy and Authoritarianism
Since the 1980 military coup in Turkey, much of the history and politics of the country can be described as a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. In this accessible account of the country's politics, society and economics, the authors delve into the causes and processes of what has been called a democratic 'backsliding'. In order to explore this, YeÅŸim Arat and Åževket Pamuk, two of Turkey's leading social scientists, focus on the m…
Democratic Backsliding and the Instrumentalization of Women's Rights in Turkey
This article examines the instrumentalization of women's rights and the transformation of the gender rights regime in the context of democratic backsliding in Turkey. I show how the Islamically rooted Justice and Development Party governments and their allies used women's rights in constructing authoritarian rule and promoting a conservative gender agenda. The governing elites had different needs at different political stages and instrumentalized…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Turkey's Politics and Society (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (11 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Democracy (7 works)