Turkey

The development of women's studies in Turkey in academic units at universities in the 1990s owes much to the changes in social and cultural politics in the country which were accelerated in the 1970s and 1980s. In this period, activist women aimed at eliminating the androcentric biases and the unbalanced gender dynamics of epistemology in social sciences (Kandiyoti 1996, 2–3, Abadan-Unat 1995, 15). The 1980 coup d'état created a politica…