“No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent”: Is Eleanor Roosevelt Right?
Can we truly choose not to feel inferior? In this thought-provoking commentary, Syed Yousha Haider critically examines Eleanor Roosevelt’s famous...
Evaluations of Female Muslim Politicians in a Populist Era: Measuring Intersectionality Using Interaction Effects and Conjoint Experiments
AbstractHow do voters evaluate female Muslim politicians? The literature mainly approaches voter evaluations of underrepresented groups from a unitary perspective,...
Violence Against Women: Towards a Policy Understanding of the Patriarchy
DOWNLOAD POLICY PAPER Please cite as: Hussain, Shilan Fuad. (2025). “Violence Against Women: Towards a Policy Understanding of the Patriarchy.”...
Revealing the Intricacies of Gendered Islamophobia and Populism through the Lens of Transnational Feminist Endeavors
As transnational feminist scholars and activists, it becomes imperative for us to intervene in feminist epistemologies by carefully discerning the...
Unmasking Gender (In)Equality: Turkey’s Post-2023 Election Landscape
According to the World Economic Forum's 2020 Gender Gap Index, Turkey ranks 129th out of 146 countries surveyed. This ranking...
Surveying the landscape of women’s rights: Observations from a researcher
The intertwined dynamics of the 'patriarchal trifecta'—forced marriages, female genital mutilation (FGM), and so-called honor killings—create a symbiotic relationship, reinforcing...
Gender Populism: Civilizational Populist Construction of Gender Identities as Existential Cultural Threats
DOWNLOAD PDF Yilmaz, Ihsan & Shakil, Kainat. (2023). “Gender Populism: Civilizational Populist Construction of Gender Identities as Existential Cultural Threats.”...
ECPS COMTOG Project – Interview with Moyra Turkington on gaming and women fighting on the front lines of history
Historical game studies is a young, slowly expanding interdisciplinary field which must address the challenges of designing games about the...
Mahsa Amini: Women’s bodily autonomy in the context of Islamism and far-right populism
Both Islamism and far-right populism claim power and control over women’s bodies by imposing rules around the hijab. In Iran,...
Liberal Roots of Far Right Activism – The Anti-Islamic Movement in the 21st Century
Girdap, Hafza. (2022). “Liberal Roots of Far Right Activism – The Anti-Islamic Movement in the 21st Century.” ECPS Book Reviews....
Right-wing populism, political Islam, and the Istanbul Convention
In the environment of rising right-wing populism, women in Turkey and across Europe are worried about losing their hard-earned legal...