Feminist Framing of Europeanisation - Gender Equality Policies in Turkey and the EU

'Bridging European and gender studies, this volume deserves a great welcome to the literature. It not only offers a feminist reading of Europeanisation in general, but also discusses the process of Europeanisation and de-Europeanisation of Turkey with regard to changes in gender policy. The book demonstrates that the EU is the leading body to advocate gender equality, and also proves that it is a firm gender actor compared to other international organisations. However, as the volume also shows, the EU is not yet a normative gender actor due to the absence of a feminist rationale in promoting gender equality abroad. The contributions offer significant insights into EU-Turkey relations from a gender studies perspective.'
Ayhan Kaya, Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Chair for European Politics of Interculturalism, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
'Süleymanoglu-Kürüm and Cin have curated a timely volume that applies a feminist lens to the well-known Europeanisation framework. Using the case of Turkey, the book extends the focus of European studies scholarship that analyses the adaptation of non-member states to EU policies and practices to setting a new feminist agenda in the adaptation to the EU. Beyond the new insights offered on the Turkish case study, the volume provides a powerful critique, and highlights the limits of the EU's reach outside of its current border.'

Toni Haastrup, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Stirling, UK
'This pioneering volume, which extends feminist perspectives to the study of EU toward candidate countries, is a must-read for scholars of EU integration and gender studies.'
Bahar Rumelili, Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at the Department of International Relations, Koc University, Turkey

This book explores the Europeanisation of gender policies and addresses some of the challenges of the debates surrounding the EU's impact on domestic politics. Using Turkey as a case study, it illustrates that Europeanisation needs a feminist agenda and perspective. The first part of the book critically engages with the literature on Europeanisation, the EU's gender policies and gender policymaking, and the interaction between Europeanisation and gender policies to argue that the Europeanisation framework falls short in devising sustainable gender policies due to a lack of feminist rationale and theory. Subsequently, the book develops a feminist framework of Europeanisation by drawing on the work of key feminist philosophers (Carole Pateman, Onora O'Neill, Nancy Fraser, Anne Phillips, Iris Young) and uses this framework to offer a critique of the Europeanisation of gender policies in various areas where the EU has prompted changes to domestic policies, including in civil society, political representation, private sector, violence against women, education, and asylum policy. 

List of contents

Part I: Conceptual Framework.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Gender and the EU?; Rahime Süleymanoglu-Kürüm and F. Melis Cin.- Chapter 2: Enlargement Strategy of the EU: A Framework for Analysis for the (de)Europeanisation in Turkey; Digdem Soyaltin-Colella and Rahime Süleymanoglu-Kürüm.- Chapter 3: EU Foreign Policy and Gender: How does the EU Incorporate Gender in its External Relations?; Dimitrios Anagnostakis.- Chapter 4: Alternative Explanations from Feminist Theories: Towards a Feminist Framework for the Europeanisation Process; F. Melis Cin and Rahime Süleymanoglu-Kürüm.- Chapter 5: Construction of a Gender Equality Regime? The Case of European Union Assistance in Turkey; Büke Bosnak.- Part II. Empirical Analysis of Gender Policies in Turkey.- Chapter 6: Internationalism and Europeanisation in the struggle over gender equality: Women's rights/feminist movement in Turkey; Elif Uzgören.- Chapter 7: Cherry-picking in Policymaking: The EU's Presumptive Roles on Gender Policymaking in Turkey; Burcu Taskin.- Chapter 8: Turkey's Legislative Reforms to Address Violence against Women, and the EU: Uphill Struggles, Hard-Won Achievements and a Promising Ally; Burcu Özdemir Sarigil.- Chapter 9: Budgetary Impact of Gender Mainstreaming and its Implementations in the EU and Turkey.- Gamze Yildiz Seren Kurular.- Chapter 10: Gender Inequality in Businesses: Woman Managers and Resilient Gender Norms; Mine Afacan Findikli, Duygu Acar Erdur and Ayfer Ustabas.- Chapter 11: Gender equality in Basic Education: Feminist Constructions of the EU; F. Melis Cin and Ecem Karlidag-Dennis.- Chapter 12: The External Dimension of EU Migration and Refugee Policies: Gender-Specific Challenges; Canan Ezel Tabur.- Chapter 13: Conclusion: Can the EU be a feminist actor?; Rahime Süleymanoglu-Kürüm and F. Melis Cin.

About the author

Rahime Süleymanölu-Kürüm is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Bahçe¿ehir University, Turkey. She is also an associate member of the Nottingham Interdisciplinary Centre for Economic and Political Research (NICEP). Her research focusses on Europeanisation, EU foreign policy, Turkish foreign policy, gendering EU studies, and gender and diplomacy. She is the author of Conditionality, the EU and Turkey: From Transformation to Retrenchment (2019).

F. Melis Cin is Lecturer in Education and Social Justice at Lancaster University, UK. She is a feminist researcher with a particular interest in exploring the relationship between education, peace and international development. She is the author of Gender Justice, Education and Equality: Creating Capabilities for Girls' and Women's Development (2017) and the co-editor of Youth, Gender and the Capabilities Approach to Development (with A. Lopez-Fogues, 2018).

Product details

• Assisted by: F. Melis Cin (Editor), Melis Cin (Editor), Melis Cin (Editor), Rahime Süleymano¿lu-Kürüm (Editor), Rahim Süleymanoglu-Kürüm (Editor), Rahime Süleymanoglu-Kürüm (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2021
• EAN: 9783030527723
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3052772-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 16 mm x 210 mm
• Illustrations: XV, 288 p. 1 illus.
• Series: Gender and Politics
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Miscellaneous