Local Power and Female Political Pathways in Turkey: Cycles of Exclusion

1.  Chapter 1. Women's Political Involvement and Local Politics in Turkey

1.1. What Is It about Local Politics in Turkey that Makes It Particularly Inaccessible to Women?

1.2. Women's Status and Political Representation in Contemporary Turkey

1.3. The State of the Art: a Scarcity of Studies about Women in Local Politics  

1.5. The Structure of the Book

Chapter 2. Contextualizing the "Turkish Paradox"

2.1  Historical Perspective on Women's Political Underrepresentation in Turkey

2.2  A Party-Specific Perspective on Women's Political Exclusion

2.3  A Local Perspective: the Closure of Local Politics to Women

2.4  Concluding Remarks

Chapter 3. The Road towards Election: Women's Exclusion from Electoral Lists

3.1. The Exclusion of Women by Local Recruiters

3.2. The Unbearable Weakness of Women's Branches

3.4. Centralization: a Price for Selecting Female Candidates?

3.5. Concluding Remarks

Chapter 4. Female Councilors: Who Passes the Filter?

4.1. The Dominant Profile among Female Councilors 

4.2. The Unconventional Profiles

4.3. Gendered Resources and Stigmas

4.4. Concluding Remarks

Chapter 5. Constraints on Women's Political Agency

5.1. Social Order and Local Politics

5.2. The Party Environment: a Hostile Environment for Women

5.3. Gendered Differences of Local Configurations

5.4. Concluding Remarks

Chapter 6. Navigating Local Politics: Women's Careers and Strategies

6.1. Adaptation Mechanisms and the Spirit of Self-Sacrifice

6.2. Individual Strategies: between Ephemeral Change and "Butterfly Politics"

6.3. Collective Mobilization and Institutional Change

6.4. Concluding Remarks

Chapter 7. Women's Representation and the Cycles of Exclusion from Local Politics  

7.1 Gendering Political Science and Restoring Interest in Women's Descriptive Representation

7.2. Who Succeeds in Turkish Local Politics?

7.4. Constraints on Women's Collective Action

7.5. Women and Democracy: A Troubled Relationship