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Article: Developing women's spaces: evaluation of the importance of sex-segregated spaces for gender and development goals in Southeastern Turkey.(Southeaster Anatolia development project teaching literacy and business skills to women)
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- Kadin/Woman 2000
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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Abstract
As part of Turkey's ambitious Southeastern Anatolia development project (GAP), community centers catering largely to women are being established throughout Turkey's southeast, with aims to teach literacy and entrepreneurial skills, build confidence, and to help overcome considerable gender disparities that characterize the region. This paper interrogates the importance of these centers (CATOM) in relation to experiences of those who participate in the centers, state goals, and in conversation with theoretical understandings of gender and space. In particular, we consider the importance of sex-segregated spaces for the women and girls who participate in ...