Studies on South East Europe - 7: Patriarchy After Patriarchy
Gender Relations in Turkey and in the Balkans, 1500-2000
- 328 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Since the second half of the 1980s, social movements have won ground. Political Islam struck Turkey; in the Balkan socialist countries the dams broke, and parliamentary democracies replaced monolithic socialist regimes. These processes have not been gender neutral. Therefore the central question After the abolition of patriarchy and the official installation of gender equality, are patriarchy and female discrimination returning in the region through the backdoor, although in a modernized version?










