Women's movements in the West have followed a historical sequence from the suffragette
movement in the late 19th century to contemporary emphases on differences and identity …

Gender equality has been one of the major issues on the agendas of both the European
Commission and many EU nation states. Since 1999 the EU has been working towards the …

This article deals with the trajectories of the headscarf issue in contemporary Turkey from the
gender politics angle by exploring its counter-hegemonic potential in a historical …

ABSTRACT “Postsocialist nostalgia” among Turkish immigrant women from Bulgaria is not
just strategic performance to negotiate the challenges that face working women in Turkey …

This paper studies the link between individual investors' portfolio diversification levels and
various personal traits that proxy informational advantages and overconfidence. The …

In promising women equal citizenship rights and promoting gender equality, Turkey's recent
welfare reforms appear to address fundamental problems-the patriarchal system limits …

In this article, we explore the increasing medicalization of birth and the surge in Caesarean
sections in order to examine how this phenomenon relates to the dominant modernization …

This article offers a comprehensive analysis of the consumption domains in which bodies
are shaped, dressed and cultivated—drawing on surveys and interviews carried out with …

This study seeks to understand the underpinnings of the Turkish state's modernization
project; drawing on archival sources, popular literature and speeches, it examines the …

This paper focuses on women's vocational education in Turkey as a gendered and
gendering process. Cultural norms about women's role in society, a vocational curriculum …