Women in a Global World III: Empowerment and Challenges

Zeynep Banu Dalaman · Suat Dönmez

May 2023 · Transnational Press London

About this ebook

Editorial Board:

Ahmet Görgen

Alp Arısoy

Berrin Ceylan Ataman

Ceren Avcil

Elif Gençkal Eroler

Elvan Karaman

Fabio Grassi

Gökhan Ak

Lan Lo

Nilüfer Narlı

Paulette Schuster

Savaş Biçer

Tuba Demirci

Zeynep Üskül Engin

CONTENTS

I. WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT: ITS IMPACT ON POLITICS, PUBLIC SPHERE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

The Power of Words: How Silent Spring Sparked the American Environmental Movement through Debate and Diplomacy – Jayashabari Shankar

The Other Side of Male Dominance: Prohibition of Pants – Zeynep Özlem Üskül Engin and Dolunay Çörek Akyıldız

Gender Mainstreaming and International Organizations: NATO Example – Suat Dönmez

Gender Mainstreaming in Türkiye within the Framework of the “European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life” – Zeynep Banu Dalaman

The Development of Civil Society and the Women’s Rights Movements in Türkiye – Ahmet Görgen

II. WOMEN’S CHALLENGES IN SOCIETY

Colonial Prejudice Hunting the African Woman: The Case of Southern/West Cameroon (1916-2022) – Charles Nda Agbor

The Relationship between the Girl Child Marriage Problem and Gender Inequality: The Case of Türkiye – Ayşe Nur Çiftçi

Chinese Women in Transnational Marriage Migration – In Two British Cities – Lan Lo and Xia Lin

Gendered Perceptions of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace in India – Naureen Bhullar, Chrysiynn D’Costa, and Ishani Roy

Female Educational Leadership between a Rock and a Hard Place – Latifa Belfakir and Imane Zeryouh

The Continuation of Gender Stereotyping and Patriarchal Mentality in the Post-Communist Albania – Enkelejda Cenaj

The Effects of Gender Discrimination on Women’s Health – Şükran Başgör and Semra Elmas

III. WOMEN AND LITERATURE

Utopian Works by Two Feminist Writers: Herland and Yeni Turan – Senem Üstün Kaya

Women Claim Agency and Subjectivity: Assia Djebar’s Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade – Ferma Lekesizalin

Reconfigurations of Female Gender Performance and Proto-Radicalism in Rachel Crothers’ A Man’s World – Furkan Tozan

This book has been published with the support of Istanbul Topkapi University, Turkey.