Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey

Demanding a Seat at the Table

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvMona Tajali,Agnes Scott College) Tajali, Mona (Associate Professor of International Relations and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

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The conservative gender ideology espoused by the ruling elites in contemporary Iran and Turkey delegates women mostly to the domestic sphere, and prioritizes their roles as mothers and wives. Despite this conservatism, women in both countries have been demanding greater access to the political field, and have even had notable achievements in recent years. Placing women's rights activism at the centre of its analysis, this bookexplores how women in Iran and Turkey manoeuvre the institutional structures andideological barriers in their respective contexts to demand a seatat the political decision-making table. It argues that the recent increases in women'spolitical representation are best understood in terms of the strategic interactions thattake place between women's rights groups and political elites, both of which dependon the support of the electorate.Key Features- Provides an institutionalist analysis of women's political underrepresentation in Iran and Turkey through an examination of each country's electoral system, political party structure, government framework and state gender ideology - Based on over 140 in-depth interviews with past and present women politicians and candidates, party elites and women's rights activists in Iran and Turkey between 2009 and 2019-

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Utgivningsdatum2022-06-17
Mått156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt667 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474499460

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Mona Tajali is associate professor of international relations and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia. She has authored (with Homa Hoodfar) Electoral Politics: Making Quotas Work for Women (WLUML 2011), and several scholarly articles on gender and politics in the Middle East. Since 2007 she has been collaborating with the research wing of Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) transnational solidarity network and since 2019 serves as a member of its executive board.

Introduction: Women and Politics in Muslim CountriesOpportunity Structures: Strategizing for Women’s Political Representation in Turkey and IranTurkish Women as Political Agents: Between Secularism and Islamic RevivalismStrategic Interactions: Multi-party politics and the lobby for female representationFraming for Political Inclusion: The Demand for Headscarved Women’s CandidacyWomen and Politics in Iran: From Revolutionary to ReformistOrganizing Against All Odds: Iranian Factionalism and Women’s Political RepresentationPiety and Agency: Framing Women’s Political Rights in a Theocratic StateConclusion: Demanding a Seat at the Table

Mona Tajali’s book provides a deep dive into women’s political strategies in Iran and Turkey. This unique study, which is based on extensive fieldwork, looks at women’s efforts across the political spectrum to carve out political leadership roles and influence for themselves in two challenging political environments. This empirically rich book offers the reader important and fascinating insights into how women in Iran and Turkey vote, what issues are important to them, as well as how party activists navigate the political world and express their political aspirations