Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey

Demanding a Seat at the Table

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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

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How have women in many Muslim-majority countries been able to achieve surprising success despite the significant constraints imposed by conservative gender ideology and authoritarian political parties and systems? Through a comparative focus on Iran and Turkey, Mona Tajili examines the activities and strategies of women's rights groups across the ideological spectrum. She explores how various groups have negotiated with political elites in order to bolster female political representation and identifies the conditions that stimulate greater support to ease women's path to political office. Studying how women's groups manoeuvre within these structures is important to help our understanding of the gendered politics of autocratic regimes.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-02-26
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt494 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474499477

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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