Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Diğer Ülkelerden Üniversiteler Tarafından Desteklenmiş Proje, 2022 - 2023
In both Turkey and Tunisia, conservative women’s groups have been active since the 1980s (Arat, 2005; Khalil, 2014). In Turkey,
Islamic women’s movement had challenged prevailing notions of secularism with decades of struggle against the headscarf ban in the
1980s and 1990s (Diner and Toktaş, 2010). As the AKP repealed the headscarf ban in 2013, the movement petered out and the but,
in the meantime, new groups began to mobilize against the traditional patriarchal interpretation of religious practice. In postrevolutionary Tunisia, recently conservative women’s organizations boomed and some engaged in discussions on structural
improvement of Tunisian women’s status including increased political participation and improved socio-economic conditions
(Debuysere, 2016: 226-230). Exploring the transformation of conservative women’s groups and organizations in both countries as well
as more broadly their gender concerns would help understand what, if any, these groups play in women’s empowerment and
representation in political, social and civic life.
This is a pilot study to gather information and preliminary data on conservative women’s groups and organizations in Turkey and
Tunisia. We will explore what gender concerns they have as well as whether and how much they prioritize these concerns. The
findings will lay the groundwork for re