Deniz Kandiyoti is Emeritus Professor of Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is the author of Concubines, Sisters and Citizens: Identities and Social Transformation (1997) the editor of Fragments of Culture: The Everyday of Modern Turkey (2002), Gendering the Middle East (1996), Women, Islam and the State (1991) Deniz is the editor of the journal Central Asian Survey.
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Published in: 50.50A tangled web: the politics of gender in TurkeyAlthough the women’s movement in Turkey has scored major victories in the realm of legal reforms, there is a...
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Published in: 50.50Not the Church, Not the State? Gender equality in the crossfire
The challenge to platforms for gender equality comes not just from actors with fundamentalist agendas, but from a...
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Published in: 50.50Negotiating with the Taliban: the view from below
While the only official woman delegate in the Afghan mission to the London Conference pleaded that women’s rights...
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Published in: 50.50Gender in Afghanistan: pragmatic activism
War and mismanagement have produced a breakdown of trust, decency and reciprocity in Afghan society. Gender activism...
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