ABSTRACT
Using an historical sociology-based case study method, this chapter differentiates the causes and the consequences of the premodern form of domestic patriarchy from those of the modern form. The time period considered is from the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire until the early Republican period (1923–1940s). The chapter further elaborates on the ways in which the interplay between the capitalist and the racist agendas of the Republican state provided a suitable context for men in their position as rural and urban small producers to exert a stronger patriarchal influence over state formation. It also investigates the dynamics preventing the first wave feminist movement from sustaining control over the state.
