Turkey's Engagement With Global Women's Human Rights

Kardam (Monterey Institute of International Studies) was born and raised in Turkey, and still spends several months a year there with her family, and so can describe changes in the country's policies and practices on women's human rights from both domestic and international perspectives. Using a constructivist perspective, she examines the intersection between global women's human rights norms and the complex and fragmented local gender regimes that exist in Turkey. She begins with the 19th-century context of how gender identities developed as Western and Islamic values engaged each other in the Ottoman Empire and through the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. Annotation c2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)