CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Isik, Esra Zeynep |
|---|---|
| Title | Gender in US-Led Modernization in Cold War Turkey, 1950 - 1970 |
| Summary | This research aims to focus on gender in US-led modernization in Cold War Turkey from 1950 to 1970. Relying on archival research on newspaper and magazine articles, parliamentary and Senate records, legislations, and the academic literature of the era, this research explores the gender aspect of US-led modernization through a focus on family planning policies. In doing so, it reveals that family planning constituted a sphere of US-led modernization in the Cold War period, where a variety of actors, from philanthropy foundations to the US government, operated with different levels of agency and engagement. The study further demonstrates that the gender aspects of family planning were neglected as the field of family planning was reconstructed with a focus on economic development. Finally, it stresses the role of local activism in Turkey in reframing family planning as a gender issue. |
| Supervisor | Fetzer, Thomas |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/isik_zeynep.pdf |
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