ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how far the emergence of neoliberal public patriarchy – from the mid-2000s onwards – has challenged the hegemony of the premodern and modern forms of domestic patriarchy in the country. Using the mixed methods of qualitative and quantitative analysis, the chapter investigates, (i) whether the majority of women in Turkey experience the conditions of the double burden of paid and unpaid labour, (ii) how far changes within the patriarchal character of the Turkish state and (iii) the civil society domain, point to a transition away from gender-based exclusion, and at the same time (iv) analyse the extent to which state interventions in the domain of gendered violence point to a shift away from the hegemony of premodern and modern domestic patriarchies.
