TÜRKİYE’DE REFAH DEVLETİ VE KADIN

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Abstract

This book deals with the effects of the neoliberal economic regime in Turkey on social policies, especially in terms of gender and women. By emphasizing the interaction of market, private and public patriarchy, the book examines what kind of regime and exclusion/exploitation mechanisms women's labor is subject to within this triple clamp. Additionally, it analyzes the processes of women's exposure to social security destruction by focusing on social security reforms and how these reforms establish and reproduce gender differences. The author questions the meaning and perspective of demands for gender equality in the face of this situation. According to the author, this work is the first to analyze how gender relations are reorganized at the intersection of neoliberal social policy, political Islam and the European Union integration phase in Turkey. The book is examined as a legal framework that, on the one hand, promotes equality of law between men and women in a "marketized" social security mechanism, and on the other hand, strengthens social norms that make providing unpaid care a "women's issue". Providing many original and well-researched insights into the contradictions of various economic and political changes, this book is clearly a valuable contribution to the literature on gender, social politics and the welfare state.

The book contributes to debates about gender and the welfare state in non-Western countries and examines the nature of changes in social policy practices and their effects on women. This analysis shows that reforms that promise equality for women sometimes preserve women's traditional gender roles and reinforce the prejudice that women are a weak and defenseless segment in need of special protection. Therefore, this book argues that changes made in welfare state structures without policies aimed at ensuring gender equality within the framework of the law and meeting the basic needs of women will greatly increase the vulnerability of women and leave them defenseless.