A muslim feminist NGO in Turkey: The case of Havle Women Association

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buir.advisorÇınar, Alev
dc.contributor.authorÖnal, Zeynep
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-06T08:00:07Z
dc.date.available2023-09-06T08:00:07Z
dc.date.copyright2023-08
dc.date.issued2023-08
dc.date.submitted2023-08-31
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administration
dc.descriptionCataloged from PDF version of article.
dc.descriptionThesis (Master's): Bilkent University, Department of Political Science, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, 2023.
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 86-91).
dc.description.abstractThis thesis focuses on the Islam-based feminist stance of Havle Women’s Association (HWA), its intellectual offerings and unique place in Turkey’s feminist movement. A newcomer to Turkey’s feminist movement, HWA was founded in Istanbul in 2018 and framed itself as “the first Muslim Feminist Women’s Association in Turkey”. The thesis examines HWA as a case study of Muslim - decolonial feminism in Turkey. By engaging with Islamic feminism and decolonial feminism literature, the study aims to investigate whether HWA produces new feminist direction in Turkey, how does HWA formulate its identity towards authoritarian AKP rule, Western stereotyped feminism, and Sunni-orthodox Islam understanding. I claim that by rejecting AKP’s enforced domination about gender roles and political implications, HWA produces an alternative framework for thinking about women’s issues from a Qur’an-based perspective. Parallel to this, the NGO also serves as the first and only initiation to the practice of modern and global Muslim feminist conceptualization in Turkey. Besides, by challenging mainstream women identity formulations, resisting Islam-referenced patriarchy, AKP’s hegemonic domination on gender-related matters and modernization and westernization stereotypes in Turkey, HWA produce an alternative perspective for its working area. Under the light of these, this study discusses HWA as a new intellectual direction for Turkey’s feminist movement.
dc.description.degreeM.A.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityby Zeynep Önal
dc.format.extentiv, 91 leaves : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
dc.identifier.itemidB162459
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11693/113824
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherBilkent University
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectAKP
dc.subjectDecolonial feminism
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectMuslim feminism
dc.titleA muslim feminist NGO in Turkey: The case of Havle Women Association
dc.title.alternativeTürkiye’de müslüman feminist bir STK: Havle Kadın Derneği örneği
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