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"Motherhood in Patriarchy" pioneers the argument that the current Western understanding of motherhood is a patriarchal one based on a long historical tradition of subjection and institutionalization. The book makes an important contribution to women's studies on reproduction, feminist theory, motherhood and welfare politics, and offers alternative perspectives.

"Motherhood in Patriarchy" pioneers the argument that the current Western understanding of motherhood is a patriarchal one based on a long historical tradition of subjection and institutionalization. The book makes an important contribution to women's studies on reproduction, feminist theory, motherhood and welfare politics, and offers alternative perspectives.

This impressive and original study is one of the first books to combine mainstream sociology with feminism in exploring the subject of the professions and power.This is an important addition to the corpus of feminist scholarship... It provides fresh insights into the way in which male power has been used to limit the employment aspirations of women in the middle classes. - Rosemary Crompton, University of Kent

This book aims to analyze and deconstruct the forms of patriarchy embedded in Turkish society and politics. In this regard, it analyses how patriarchy functions and reconstructs itself by suppressing women and non heterosexuals. It also reveals its effects on women and non-heterosexuals through some societal and political issues such as military interventions, the perceptions on transsexuals by the state and society, juvenile penal justice, and policies on environment.

This essay compares and contrasts Turkish author Halide Edib's novel The Shirt of Flame (Duffield & Company, 1921) to the second volume of her memoirs, The Turkish Ordeal (The Century Company, 1928). Both texts have female protagonists and parallel plots and take place during the Allied occupation of Istanbul (1918–23). Both texts are manifestations of an emerging Turkish national master narrative. By highlighting the tensions between the first-person narratives of the novel, the memoir, and the emplottment of the national master narrative, this essay offers an analysis of tensions between cosmopolitan Islamic feminism and secular nationalism. This essay describes how memoir (whether an actual memoir, such as The Turkish Ordeal, or a fictional memoir, such as The Shirt of Flame) constructs the object of its knowledge (the feminist self), and furthermore, how the feminist self can be read either as constitutive of national allegory (as in The Shirt of Flame) or as an allegorical critique of patriarchal nationalism (as in the English-language The Turkish Ordeal). The essay concludes by showing how Halide Edib's perspective allows for a gendered reading of the national master narrative and the Orientalist/ nationalist binary upon which it is predicated.

"Ich skizziere zunächst, freilich nur kursorisch, den Stand der deutschsprachigen Geschlechterdebatte, die sich in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten mit der Erklärung des Zusammenhangs von Kapitalismus und Patriarchat befasste. Daran anschließend werde ich geschlechtersensible Erweiterungen des Regulationsansatzes der vergangenen Dekade darstellen und seine Anschlussfähigkeit an die geschlechtertheoretische Debatte abschätzen, um dann das zeitdiagnostische Potenzial der so adaptierten Regulationstheorie für die Transformation von Geschlechterverhältnissen in Ländern des Nordens zu rekapitulieren. Schließlich soll im nächsten Schritt eine feministisch-dekonstruktivistische Zuspitzung der Regulationstheorie vorgeschlagen werden, die die funktionalistischen Verengungen - auch des geschlechtsspezifisch erweiterten Regulationsansatzes - überwinden könnte. Dies kann freilich nur als ein Forschungsprogramm angedeutet werden, das Hinweise auf eine geschlechtertheoretische Erklärung der 'Vielfachkrise' bieten kann." (Textauszug)