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The Department of Law and Legal Studies and the Jurisprudence Centre present the final JurisTalk session of the 2013-2014 academic year:
An Historical Assessment of Feminism in Turkey:
Between Rights and Laws
with Prof. Simten Coşar
Monday, March 31st, 2014
3pm | D492 Loeb
The feminist movement in Turkey had entered into a new stage by the 2000s. The rise of socio-cultural conservatism at the policy-making level, the differentiation between women’s rights and feminist politics, and the socio-political crisis that intensified throughout the decade and afterwards, were all factors that affected new challenges for the feminist agenda.
This lecture grows out of an effort to inquire into the state of feminist politics in contemporary Turkey with an historical perspective and through taking issue with the dominant features of the political structure-in-crisis.
Simten Coşar is a professor of Political Science in the Faculty of Communication, at Hacettepe University (Ankara, Turkey). Her major sphere of interest has been political theory in general and liberal thought in particular. She has published articles on Turkish liberalism, covering both intellectual dimension and party politics, center-right politics, on women’s movement in Turkey in Turkish and English. She has been conducting research on the construction of gender typologies in Turkish political thought. She edited a book on the AKP years in Turkey (Silent Violence: Neoliberalism, Political Islam and the AKP Years in Turkey, Red Quill Books, 2012) with Gamze Yücesan-Özdemir.