MA Thesis by Aydın Baran Gürpınar
MA Thesis in History, Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2023
I am deeply thankful to my parents, Asiye Gürpınar and Hasan Cemaleddin Gürpınar, for their const... more I am deeply thankful to my parents, Asiye Gürpınar and Hasan Cemaleddin Gürpınar, for their constant presence regardless of distance, their immense love, and unwavering support that has encompassed every facet of my life. Whenever I required it the most, their generous and unconditional assistance has been a source of strength. vi This study is dedicated with humility to my father, Hasan Cemaleddin Gürpınar, and in loving memory of my dear and greatly missed grandfather, Aydın Gürpınar. To them, I owe everything. vii Dedem Aydın Gürpınar ve babam Hasan Cemaleddin Gürpınar'a.. .
MSc thesis in Global Studies, Lund University, Sweden, 2015
The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 opened up the public space for Egyptian women from very different... more The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 opened up the public space for Egyptian women from very different backgrounds. However, although women played a decisive role in revolutionary events, this did not result in the abolishment of the patriarchal bargain between Egyptian secular-oriented female feminists and the state in post-Mubarak Egypt. Even though certain conditions caused the suspension of the patriarchal bargain regulating relationships between Egyptian secular-oriented female feminists and the state during the Muslim Brotherhood regime, these conditions did not indicate the entire cancellation of the bargain. The patriarchal bargain between Egyptian secular feminists and the political leadership has been reestablished during the presidential rule of El-Sisi. This study aims at explaining how and why Egyptian secular-oriented feminist women's coping mechanisms and the strategies in dealing with successive political leaderships, the Muslim Brotherhood regime in power from 2012-2013 and the El-Sisi regime during the presidential term between June 2014 June and June 2015 differed from each other. Based on my interviews which were conducted with the activists, domestic and international legal instruments, secondary sources including UN human rights reports and NGO reports, as well as scholarly articles and media reports, I found out that the majority of secular women activists' strict ideological differentiation with the Muslim Brotherhood regime emanating from gender-discriminatory policies of the Brotherhood led them to suspend the patriarchal bargain with the state. Furthermore, I also demonstrated that activist women's disdain of the Brotherhood along with their support for new progressive laws on the protection of women's rights in the Egyptian's Constitution of 2014 have made them support El-Sisi's military rule with some reservations even though the recent regulations of El-Sisi's leadership have allowed the state to restrict NGOs' activities and freedom of association.
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MA Thesis by Aydın Baran Gürpınar
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