CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Kasap, Tugce |
|---|---|
| Title | Women's Wombs As A "Biopolitical Space" in The Context of Biopolitics of Abortion in Turkey |
| Summary | This thesis investigates the biopolitcs of the Justice and Development party (the AKP) which has been the ruling party in Turkey since 2002, with a specific emphasis on the so-called “Reproductive Health Bill” that aimed at banning abortion. Juxtaposing “the Reproductive Health Bill” with other neoconservative and neoliberal policies of the AKP makes it clear that the issue of banning abortion is an extension of a much broader social engineering project which is based on the conservatisation of the public. By carrying out a discourse analysis of the remarks of the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Health Minister Recep Akdağ and some other MPs of the AKP, the thesis attempts to reveal the hidden agenda of the government behind the radical social reforms that they have introduced. In doing so, the thesis identifies a set of gender myths which allegedly aim at increasing women’s participation in the public sphere as well as providing them economic freedom. This thesis contributes to the bulk of literature on the issue of abortion in Turkey by creating an updated framework to locate the place of the AKP’s biopolitics within the short history of abortion in the late Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. |
| Supervisor | Sandor, Judit; Lukic, Jasmina |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/kasap_tugce.pdf |
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