Patriarchy after patriarchy: gender relations in Turkey and in the Balkans, 1500 - 2000

"Since the second half of the 1980s social movements, which questioned the legitimacy of the hitherto seemingly stable systems of Kemalist Turkey and socialist Balkans, won ground. Political Islam shuck Turkey; in the Balkan socialist countries the dams broke, and parliamentary democracies repl...

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Published in:Studies on South East Europe
Main Author: Kaser, Karl 1954-2022 (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Wien Berlin Münster Lit 2008
In: Studies on South East Europe (7)
Series/Journal:Studies on South East Europe 7
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Europe / Patriarchate / Gender composition / Social change / History 1500-2000
B Turkey / Patriarchate / Gender composition / Social change / History 1500-2000
Further subjects:B Balkan Peninsula Social conditions
B Turkey Social conditions
B Sex role (Turkey)
B Sex role (Balkan Peninsula)
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Summary:"Since the second half of the 1980s social movements, which questioned the legitimacy of the hitherto seemingly stable systems of Kemalist Turkey and socialist Balkans, won ground. Political Islam shuck Turkey; in the Balkan socialist countries the dams broke, and parliamentary democracies replaced monolithic socialist regimes. These processes have not been gender neutral. Therefore the central question is - after the abolition of patriarchy and the official installation of gender equality - are patriarchy and female discrimination returning in the region through the backdoor, although in a modernized version?"--BOOK JACKET
Item Description:Literaturverz. S. 283 - 314
ISBN:3700007981