Married to Anatolian Tigers: business masculinities, relationalities, and limits to empowerment

This paper examines business masculinities and relationalities of empowerment in the everyday life experiences of male entrepreneurs and wives of entrepreneurs in three urban centers in Turkey: Gaziantep, Konya and İzmir. We take gendered power inequalities as structural and relational, and empowerm...

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Published inTurkish studies Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 297 - 321
Main Authors Akyüz, Selin, Sayan-Cengiz, Feyda, Çırakman, Aslı, Cindoğlu, Dilek
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 15.03.2019
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Anatolian Tigers
Conservatism
Decision making
Empowerment
Entrepreneurship
Everyday life
Female empowerment
Gender roles
Globalization
Inequality
masculinities
Turkey
Urban areas
Values
Wives
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Summary:This paper examines business masculinities and relationalities of empowerment in the everyday life experiences of male entrepreneurs and wives of entrepreneurs in three urban centers in Turkey: Gaziantep, Konya and İzmir. We take gendered power inequalities as structural and relational, and empowerment as a complex, multifaceted process. Based on a relational understanding of gender roles, we scrutinize men's and women's decision making areas in an attempt to understand normalized and internalized patriarchal values and assumptions, as well as explicit or implicit challenges against such values. We argue that gendered experiences of entrepreneurs and women married to entrepreneurs offer a complementary analysis of nuanced empowerment strategies in the background of seemingly contradictory currents such as economic globalization, transforming masculinities, rising conservatism and reinforced gender hierarchies.
ISSN:1468-3849
1743-9663
DOI:10.1080/14683849.2018.1524710