Prof. Yeşim Arat

Telephone: 0 212 359 75 78

E-mail: araty@boun.edu.tr

Offered Courses:

POLS 532.1 POLS 790.3 POLS 690.3

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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Research Interests

Gender Politics

Turkish Politics

Women and Politics in Turkey

Women's Movements in Turkey

Preferred Thesis Supervision Areas or Topics

Any question on contemporary Turkish Politics, gender and politics, social movements.

Ongoing Research Projects:

Feminist movement and the women of the Gezi protests

Teaching Areas

Gender Politics
Turkish Politics
Politics of Developing Countries
Problems of Democratization

Selected Publications

Book

Turkey Between Democracy and Authoritarianism, with Şevket Pamuk, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Türkiye’de Kadına Yönelik Şiddet

Türkiye’de Kadına Yönelik Şiddet (Violence Against Women in Turkey), with Ayşe Gül Altınay Istanbul, Punto, 2007 (2008 Pen Duygu Asena Award).

Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy: Islamist Women in Turkish Politics

Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy: Islamist Women in Turkish Politics, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2005.

The Patriarchal Paradox: Women Politicians in Turkey

The Patriarchal Paradox: Women Politicians in Turkey, N.J., Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1989.

Edited Book

Rethinking the Political: Gender, Resistance and the State Rethinking the Political: Gender, Resistance and the State, co-edited with Barbara Laslett andJohanna Brenner, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Articles

"Democratic Backsliding and the Instrumentalization of Women's Rights in Turkey”. Gender and Politics, 2021.

Islamist Women and Feminist Concerns in Contemporary Turkey: Prospects for Women's Rights and Solidarity

"Islamist Women and Feminist Concerns in Contemporary Turkey: Prospects for Women's Rights and Solidarity", Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2016.

KAMER, a women’s center and an experiment in cultivating cosmopolitan norms

“KAMER, a women’s center and an experiment in cultivating cosmopolitan norms”, Women’s Studies International Forum, 49, 2015, with Altınay, Ayşe Gül.

Violence, Resistance and Gezi Park

“Violence, Resistance and Gezi Park”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 45, November 2013.

Women’s Rights and Islam in Turkish Politics

“Women’s Rights and Islam in Turkish Politics”, The Middle East Journal, vol. 64, no. 2, 2010.

Religion, Politics and Gender Equality in Turkey: implications of a democratic paradox?

“Religion, Politics and Gender Equality in Turkey: implications of a democratic paradox?”, Third World Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 6, 2010.

Group Differentiated Rights and Liberal Democracy: Rethinking the Headscarf Controversy in Turkey

"Group Differentiated Rights and Liberal Democracy: Rethinking the Headscarf Controversy in Turkey”, New Perspectives on Turkey, Fall 2001.

Islamic Fundamentalism and Women in Turkey

"Islamic Fundamentalism and Women in Turkey", The Muslim World, vol. 80, no.1, January 1990.

Book Chapter

Nation Building and Feminism in Early Republican Turkey

“Nation Building and Feminism in Early Republican Turkey” in Celia Kerslake, Kerem Öktem and Philip Robins eds. , Turkey’s Engagement with Modernity: Conflict and Change in the Twentieth Century, Great Britain, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

The Project of Modernity and Women in Turkey

"The Project of Modernity and Women in Turkey", in Sibel Bozdoğan and Reşat Kasaba (eds), Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1997.

On the Emancipation of Women in Contemporary Turkey?

“On the Emancipation of Women in Contemporary Turkey?”, in Nermin Abadan Unat and Gretty Mirdal, “Emancipation in Exile: Perspectives on the Employment of Migrant Women”, Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 2015.

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