“Women of ’68 and their experiences of bargaining with patriarchy”

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Beşpınar L. Z.

TURKISH HISTORICAL REVIEW, cilt.12, ss.233-266, 2021 (AHCI)

• Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
• Cilt numarası: 12
• Basım Tarihi: 2021
• Dergi Adı: TURKISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
• Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, Index Islamicus
• Sayfa Sayıları: ss.233-266
• Marmara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this article, I examine the experiences of women who had assumed leading roles in the ‘68 student movement, the trade union or political movements after 1968 in Turkey, on the basis of their own narratives. I argue that these women dramatically diverge from the previous and following generations. The theoretical framework of this article is based on Deniz Kandiyoti and Ayşe Durakbaşa’s works. Kandiyoti’s thesis is that women were “emancipated” in Turkey only on the ground of “rights” thanks to the legal regulations, but it was not totally possible to use the rights in practice. Women were not in fact liberated at all  and were obliged to bargain with the patriarchy on the usability and limitations of the rights on levels and forms changing according to the class positions of the concerned women.[i] Besides, I will also discuss the differences between the women of ‘68 with the “girls of the Republic” idealized by the Republic itself “as liberated women”, but who, according Durakbaşa, lived “under a guised contract with their fathers.”[ii]