Empowering Housewives in Southeast Turkey : Gender, State and Development - Kubra Zeynep  Sariaslan

Empowering Housewives in Southeast Turkey

Gender, State and Development

By: Kubra Zeynep Sariaslan

Paperback | 24 April 2025

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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 Turkeyâs âgendered regimeâ still impede womenâs potential, and that the programmesâ own feminist agendas are undermined through their capitalist ethos of personal growth and culturalist reasoning. Particularly revealing is the stateâs large-scale regional development project, the âSoutheast Anatolia Projectâ, which is the priortiy and ultimately facilitates womenâs structural exclusion. Situating the ongoing empowerment programmes within the larger social engineering project of the Republic of Turkey â" which is long associated with emancipating women through top-down measures â" this book highlights the repetition of failure in womenâs liberation in the history of the country.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

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