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Gendered Politics in Turkey

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Gender mainstreaming; Gender relations; Gender system

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Gender, different from sex, or being biologically male or female, manifests itself in a person’s social and psychological characteristics. Inequality is a neutral concept, used by socialist tradition like repression or subjugation, which for is ineffectual, but which ultimately replaces the ideas that symbolize rebellion against the power/government. It is claimed that gender is determined by cultural, religious, and ideological norms and the existing society, and it is not defined by birth, and thus it can be changed by the very same society. Today, the dominant “gender mainstream” is criticized for integrating the women organizations into the system without transforming the patriarchal institutions, so feminist theorists of the socialist tradition prefer “gender relations” and “gender orientation.”

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  1. Faculty of Communication, Public Relations and Advertising, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

    Fatih Keskin

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  1. Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

    Ali Farazmand

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Keskin, F. (2018). Gendered Politics in Turkey. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3567-1

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