Empowering Housewives in Southeast Turkey : Gender, State and Development /
This open access book draws on ethnographic research conducted in empowerment programmes for marginalized women, in the Southeast Anatolia region, to understand how these projects operate and why they have failed. Based on interviews and observations, the book argues that everyday barriers in Turkey...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- <B>Introduction: The Continuity of the Gender Regime</b> Genealogy of a Rhetoric: Empowerment Culturalist Foundations of Progress Times of Hope: Context of the Research An Ethnography of Women's Praxis: Notes on Methods Organisation of the Book <b>PART I
- THE 'SECOND' HOME: Defining Women's Place </b> <b>1. </b><b>Creating Public(s) in (Re)public(s)</b> Kemalist Vision of Emancipation: Girls' Institutes GAP's Vision of Empowerment: Multi-Purpose Community Centres Erdogan's Vision of Rehabilitation: Family Support Centres <b>2. </b><b>Alternative Opportunities</b> Meanings of Education through Life Stories Halime: "I am not interested" Aylin: "I have bigger dreams" Breadwinner Housewives Becoming Professionals: Ilknur and Tugba Dreams of Entrepreneurship <b>Part II
- EMPTY GESTURES: Politics and Expansion of the Party </b> <b>3. </b><b>Streams in Mainstreaming</b> 'Add-Women-and-Stir' Tourism A Non-Position in Local Bureaucracy: Mrs. Governor "Rowing Against Tsunami" <b>4. </b><b>Participation without Us </b> Efsun's Disappointment: Politics without Critique Sibel's Objection to Family: Symbolic Representation in AKP Expansion of Government in Women's Praxis: Multiple Belongings, Conflicting Statements <b>Part III
- ONE NEEDLE MANY THREADS: Self-Making Through Women's Praxis</b> <b>5. </b><b>A Project of One's Own</b> Selectively Available Funds A Leader Woman: Life and Words of Aliye Resisting Male Resistance <b>6. </b><b>Building Awareness </b> "Burning Anger" Differences Negotiated (or Not) Hazal's Pieces: Afterlife of Workshops <b>Conclusion</b>