Are You God? Damn Your Family

The Islam-Gender Nexus in Right-Wing Populism and the New Generation of Muslim Feminist Activism in Turkey

Bibliographic Data

ID3250607
AuthorsDidem Unal (0000-0001-9733-0329, University of Helsinki, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume13
Issue4
Pages372
Publication date2022-04-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel13040372
OpenAlexW4224238907
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited59

This article examines young Muslim women's dissident mentalities, practices, and subjectivities that confront the epistemological conditions whereby right-wing populist (RWP) gender politics operates in Turkey. Relying on frame theory in social movement research and the Foucauldian approach to resistance, dissent, and protest, it explores Muslim feminist critique of RWP gender discourse mainly with a focus on the following issues: (i.) Instrumentalization of the headscarf, (ii.) familialist policies, and (iii.) violence against women and the Istanbul Convention (the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence). As a result, it demonstrates that young Muslim women's dissident mentalities and subjectivities generate a new "political project", i.e., a set of new meanings and social goals directed at bringing about social change, which comes into being through the act of resistance against RWP gender grammar and carves out new forms of knowledge reclaiming the Islam-gender nexus for a progressive feminist agenda

Dissent · Islam · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Turkey's Politics and Society

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