Women's Shelters in Turkey: a Qualitative Study on Shortcomings of Policy Making and Implementation

dc.contributor.author Diner, Çağla
dc.contributor.author Toktaş, Şule
dc.date.accessioned 2021-02-06T18:13:00Z
dc.date.available 2021-02-06T18:13:00Z
dc.date.issued 2013
dc.department Fakülteler, İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü en_US
dc.description.abstract Despite a long history of women's movements and policy-making efforts to ameliorate women's status in Turkey, the number and quality of women's shelters are far from sufficient. This article aims to reveal the shortcomings of shelter policy through the lens of those "at work" on this important social issue using a qualitative research design. Forty semistructured in-depth interviews were conducted with municipal administrative officials, state social workers, and employees of civil society organizations that run shelters. The research findings reveal that there is a lack of effective authority that has the willpower to combat violence against women, and that it is difficult to keep shelters secure in a patriarchal society away from the male gaze. Furthermore, results indicate that there has been an erosion of social services provided by the state. en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 7
dc.identifier.doi 10.1177/1077801213486258 en_US
dc.identifier.endpage 355 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1077-8012 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1077-8012
dc.identifier.issue 3 en_US
dc.identifier.pmid 23676448 en_US
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-84877777955 en_US
dc.identifier.scopusquality Q1
dc.identifier.startpage 338 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/3866
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801213486258
dc.identifier.volume 19 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000318953800004 en_US
dc.identifier.wosquality Q2
dc.institutionauthor Diner, Çağla en_US
dc.institutionauthor Toktaş, Şule en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Sage Publications Inc en_US
dc.relation.journal Violence Against Women en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 9
dc.subject Domestic violence en_US
dc.subject Social workers en_US
dc.subject Women in Turkey en_US
dc.subject Women's shelters en_US
dc.title Women's Shelters in Turkey: a Qualitative Study on Shortcomings of Policy Making and Implementation en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.wos.citedbyCount 7
dspace.entity.type Publication

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