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Arat, Yeşim. “Contestation and Collaboration: Women’s Struggles for
Empowerment in Turkey.” In The Cambridge History of Turkey Volume 4: Turkey in the Modern World. Edited by Reşat Kasaba. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 388-418.
 
—————. “Feminist Insitutions and Democratic Aspirations: The Case of the
Purple Roof Women’s Shelter Foundation.” In Deconstructing Images of “The Turkish Woman.” Edited by [...]

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Input Paper #3 for Turkey
By Kevin Duong 
 
The Gender/Sexuality Narrative in Turkey
 
In my previous input paper, I had attempted to map out the terrain with which an analysis of cultural narratives and the way that the politics of writing and rewriting narratives sustained and precluded the Kurdish population in Turkey in asserting stories about their lives.  [...]

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Input Paper #2: Turkey
By Kevin Duong
 
In the past few decades after the ratification of Turkey’s new constitution in 1982, their project of nation building has re-oriented itself due to external circumstances.  Primarily, the possibility of Turkey’s EU ascension has shifted the terms of political transformation in Turkey’s domestic politics.  There are several elements of nation [...]

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Input Paper – Turkey
By Kevin Duong
 
 
I think that I would like to focus on the relationship between Turkey’s EU accession candidacy, which broadly falls under the category of nation building, and the changing orientation of Turkey’s nation building as the macro-discourse that provides the context for a changing discourse on human security and peace within [...]

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My apologies for my poor technical skills in originally posting this reference list. Please let me know if the formatting is still an issue – I seem to be able to read it on my end.
Thanks!
Women’s rights in Turkey: References
Arat, Yesmin. “Feminists, Islamists, and Political Change in Turkey,” Political Psychology 19:1 (March 1998): 117-131.
Ecevit, F. [...]

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