About

Canan Aslan Akman graduated from Ankara Atatürk High School and Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey with an BA degree in Political Science and Public Administration. She received her M.Phil Degree in Women’s Studies from Trinity College, Dublin.  She holds her Ph.D  in political science from McGill University in Canada in 2001. Since 2001, she has been teaching political science and gender at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration and in the Gender and Women’s Studies graduate program at METU.  Her academic research interests  focus on women’s political participation,  state policies on gender-based violence and gender-equality, women’s legislative activism, gender dynamics of democratization processes, and women’s civil society activism. She was a visiting scholar in Women’s Studies Program (2017-2018) at Waterloo University, Canada.  Her current reseach focuses on populist right-wing policies on gender equality, legislative representation of women, and women  in the justice system. Her most recent publications are:

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Canan Aslan Akman (2021): ‘’Women officials of the Turkish Diyanet: Gendered transformations and predicaments of empowerment?’’, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies,DOI:10.1080/12259276.2021.1932115

Canan Aslan Akman (2023). ‘’Turkish Political Parties as Gendered Gatekeepers and the Implementation of Voluntary Quotas’’ in S. Lang et al (eds.) Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas: Resisting Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan.pp 131-150

Aslan-Akman,Canan (2016). ‘Comparative Trajectories of the Women’s Movements in Israel and Turkey: Transforming the Policy and Agendas in Divided Societies’ in Aviad Rubin and Yusuf Sarfati (eds), The Jarring Road to Democratic Inclusion: A Comparative Assessment of State-Society Engagements in Israel and Turkey, Lexington Press.

Aslan-Akman, Canan (2015). ’‘Politics of Gender in the Recent Democratic Transitions in the Middle East and Africa,’ Alternative Politics, April 2015, 7:1, 56-86.

Aslan-Akman,Canan.(2013)  ‘‘Islamic Women’s Ordeal with the New Face(s) of Patriarchy in Power: Divergence or Convergence over Expanding Women’s Citizenship?” in Rasim Özgür Dönmez and Ahu Özmen (eds.) Gendered Identities: Criticizing Patriarchy in Turkey, Lexington Books: Landham MD., pp.113-145

Aslan-Akman, Canan & Fatma Tütüncü (2013) ‘Struggle Against Male Violence with an Egalitarian Jurisprudence and Religious Conservative Governance: The Case of Secular Turkey’, in Zahia Smail Salhi (ed), Gender and Violence in Islamic Societies: Patriarchy; Islamism and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa, I. B Tauris :London. 2013, pp.82-107. 

Aslan-Akman, Canan & Fatma Tütüncü (2011) “Gender and Citizenship in Turkey at the Crossroads of Patriarchal State, Women and Transnational Pressures” in Societal Peace and Ideal Citizenship for Turkey ed Razim Özgür Dönmez and Pınar Enneli. Lexington Books: Landham, MD., 179-205. 

Email: aslanc@metu.edu.tr

Current Affiliation:  Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.