Men and Woman

Until the 1980s, Turkey prided itself on the women’s emancipation that the Kemalists had delivered. But in the past two decades, women have become critical of the Kemalist project of modernity and its effects on women. The military intervention of September 1980 repressed both the radical Left as well as the radical Right in Turkey as it aimed to de-politicize society. Despite the domestic repression of the early 1980s, Turkey was increasingly tied to the …

…were mostly a heterogeneous group of middle-aged, middle-class professionals who were influenced by one another as they positioned and defined themselves in relation to one another. A fundamental cleavage among the women of this period was between secular and Islamist women. Over time, both groups were separated into numerous other divisions. Within the secular camp. the most prominent division grew between the women who called themselves radical feminists and those who considered themselves Kemalist feminists