Gençoğlu, FundaGunduz, MelisaGencoglu, FundaPolitical Science and Public Administration2024-07-052024-07-05202411468-38491743-966310.1080/14683849.2023.22082702-s2.0-85158914901https://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2023.2208270https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/2522Gündüz, Melisa/0000-0002-5196-944X; Gencoglu, Funda/0000-0001-8211-8624Could the Turkish women's movement, which has a strong reaction mechanism, be a constituent actor of counter-hegemony? The main reasons behind this question are the women's movement's deep-rooted history and its openness to combine theory with practice/action. When looked from the Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau's perspective of radical democracy theory, the women's movement appears to have a considerable potential of deciphering the existing hegemony and articulating the social demands which exclude and are excluded by the present-day hegemony in Turkey. This article tries to understand how women's movement in Turkey conceptualizes the existing power relations that constitute the neoliberal religio-conservative hegemony and how it responds to it.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessWomen's movementfeminismradical democracyhegemonycounter hegemonyArticleQ2Q1252233256WOS:000979214600001