TY - JOUR AU - Cangöz, İncilay AU - Gönç Şavran, Temmuz AU - Suğur, Serap AU - Yeşildal, Hatice PY - 2022/01/04 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Conservative Women’s Organizations and their Approaches to the Women’s Rights From the Third Wave Feminist Perspective JF - Kadın/Woman 2000, Journal for Women's Studies JA - JWS VL - 22 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.33831/jws.v22i2.235 UR - https://ojs.emu.edu.tr/index.php/woman2000/article/view/235 SP - 47-71 AB - <p>This study focuses on Islamist women's organizations as civil society actors. Although this research is based on a comprehensive field study covering all women's organizations and activists in Eskişehir, only the data gathered from interviews at Islamist women's organizations were analyzed for the purposes of this study. The study, investigates the position of Islamic women's organizations in women’s movements in terms of their defense of women's rights and their stance against patriarchal domination in line with their understanding of the female body. The discourse of women's rights defended in Islamist women's organizations is established with reference to Islam. The discourse criticizes gender equality as a universal value and replaces it with gender justice because Islamist women believe that Western Feminism does not cover the reality of Muslim women. In line with the Islamic narration of creation, Islamist women advocate the distribution of justice according to the vital religious notion of created/given natural characteristics (fîtra) of the sexes. In addition, they do not see their bodies as their own but as God’s trust and are thus against abortion. Therefore, within the women's movement in Turkey, tension is growing between secular women and Islamist women, between gender equality and gender justice, causing division rather than solidarity among women.</p> ER -