Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/312717 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Routledge Studies in Gender and Economics
Publisher: 
Routledge, Oxford
Abstract: 
Recent decades have witnessed both a renewed energy in feminist activism and widespread attacks taking back hard-won rights. Despite powerful feminist movements, the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly undermined the progress women have struggled for decades to achieve; how can this be? What explains this paradox of a strong feminist movement coexisting with stubborn patriarchal arrangements? How can we stop the next global catastrophe initiating a similar backlash? This book suggests that the limitations of social theory prevent feminist strategies from initiating transformative changes and achieving permanent gains. It investigates the impact of theoretical shortcomings upon feminist strategies by engaging with two clusters of work: ungendered accounts of capitalist development and theories on gendered oppression and inequality. Decentring feminist theorising grounded in histories and developments of the global North, the book provides an original theory of the patriarchal system by analysing changes within its forms and degrees as well as investigating the relationship between the gender, class and race-ethnicity based inequalities. Turkey offers a case that challenges assumptions and calls for rethinking major feminist categories and theories, thereby shedding light on the dynamics of social change in the global South. The timely intervention of this book is, therefore, crucial for feminist strategies going forward. The book emerges at the intersections between Gender, International Development, Political Economy, and Sociology and its main readership will be found in, but not limited to, these disciplinary fields. The material covered in this book will be of great interest to students and researchers in these areas as well as policy makers and feminist activists. Since publication it has been nominated for the prestigious 2023 British Sociological Association's Philip Adams Memorial Prize.
Subjects: 
Gender
Development
Feminist Political Economy
the global South
Varieties of Gender Regimes
Varieties of Capitalisms
Landownership
Female Employment
Turkey
Domestic Patriarchy
Public Patriarchy
Women's Double Burden
Civil Society
Younger Men
Patriarchal Exploitation
Social Democratic Forms
Patriarchal Gender Contract
Social Reproduction
Non-agricultural Sectors
Unpaid Family Workers
Labour Exploitation
Political Collective Subject
UN
Childcare Provision
Alevi Women
Kurdish Women
Female Peasants
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ISBN: 
978-1-000-61306-3
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Book

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