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Recent decades have witnessed both a renewed energy in feminist activism and widespread attacks taking back hard-won rights. Despite powerful feminist movements, the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly undermined the progress women have struggled for decades to achieve; how can this be? What explains this paradox of a strong feminist movement coexisting with stubborn patriarchal arrangements? How can we stop the next global catastrophe initiating a similar backlash? This book suggests that the limitations of social theory prevent feminist strategies from initiating transformative changes and achieving permanent gains. It investigates the impact of theoretical shortcomings upon feminist strategies by engaging with two clusters of work: ungendered accounts of capitalist development and theories on gendered oppression and inequality. Decentring feminist theorising grounded in histories and developments of the global North, the book provides an original theory of the patriarchal system by analysing changes within its forms and degrees as well as investigating the relationship between the gender, class and race-ethnicity based inequalities. Turkey offers a case that challenges assumptions and calls for rethinking major feminist categories and theories, thereby shedding light on the dynamics of social change in the global South. The timely intervention of this book is, therefore, crucial for feminist strategies going forward. The book emerges at the intersections between Gender, International Development, Political Economy, and Sociology and its main readership will be found in, but not limited to, these disciplinary fields. The material covered in this book will be of great interest to students and researchers in these areas as well as policy makers and feminist activists. Since publication it has been nominated for the prestigious 2023 British Sociological Association's Philip Adams Memorial Prize.

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This pathbreaking book is a powerful contribution to the expanding field of stratification economics, theoretically and empirically exploring the role of hierarchical economic, political and social institutions in maintaining the power of dominant groups. It is unique in its focus on the interacting effects of stratification by class, race, and gender using Turkey as a case study. Development economists especially will find rich theoretical terrain in this book to expand our understanding of global inequalities. - Stephanie Seguino, Professor, Department of Economics, and Fellow, Gund Institute for the Environment, University of Vermont, USA Ece Kocabicak provides a compelling new feminist materialist approach to male dominance in the global South based on the economic conditions which allow or hinder the formation of men and women's collective agencies depending on their class and racial-ethnic positioning. Her historical framing of types of patriarchal economies and state formations allow for exciting comparisons and contrasts to gendered development in other countries in the global South. - Ann Ferguson, Professor emerita of Philosophy and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. This pathbreaking book is a powerful contribution to the expanding field of stratification economics, theoretically and empirically exploring the role of hierarchical economic, political and social institutions in maintaining the power of dominant groups. It is unique in its focus on the interacting effects of stratification by class, race, and gender using Turkey as a case study. Development economists especially will find rich theoretical terrain in this book to expand our understanding of global inequalities. - Stephanie Seguino, Professor, Department of Economics, and Fellow, Gund Institute for the Environment, University of Vermont, USA Ece Kocabicak provides a compelling new feminist materialist approach to male dominance in the global South based on the economic conditions which allow or hinder the formation of men and women's collective agencies depending on their class and racial-ethnic positioning. Her historical framing of types of patriarchal economies and state formations allow for exciting comparisons and contrasts to gendered development in other countries in the global South. - Ann Ferguson, Professor emerita of Philosophy and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.

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Ece Kocabıçak, Ph.D., is currently working as a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the Open University, United Kingdom. For more than two decades, Ece has been involved in feminist politics in Turkey, Egypt, Cyprus and England. She has written for a variety of publications including academic books and journals, newspapers and magazines.

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