After years of progress in terms of gender and sexual rights, since 2012 Europe is facing a
so-called gender backlash–opposition directed to issues related to reproductive policies and …

The article examines the most prominent women's Government-Organized Non-
Governmental Organization (GONGO) in Turkey, named KADEM, as a case to illustrate the …

This article examines young Muslim women's dissident mentalities, practices, and
subjectivities that confront the epistemological conditions whereby right-wing populist (RWP) …

This paper covers how the merging of political Islam and the Turkish state led to the
monopolization of public Islam and describes how the erasing of diverse meanings …

With the rise to power of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the early 2000s in
Turkey, the headscarf that used be looked down upon by the secular middle and upper …

Comparative Feminist Studies foregrounds writing, organizing, and reflection on feminist
trajectories across the historical and cultural borders of nation-states. It takes up …

This book provides a detailed account of the emergence and metamorphoses of Lashkar-e-
Taiba (LeT) and its political arm, Jamat ud Dawah, since the early 1990s. Linking the group's …

In Turkey, Justice and Development Party (AKP) holds a single-party government since
2002 with a conservative, pro-Islamist and anti-feminist political ideology. AKP's …

This article presents a qualitative analysis of profeminist Islamic women public figures'
discourses in the abortion debate in Turkey in 2012. The aim is to reveal the possibilities …

In the study of feminist hermeneutics, gender construction in Islamic law tries to bridge the
gap between the dominant patriarchal norms in interpreting traditional Islamic law and …