abstract: 'Reforming care regimes to cover the care deficit and enhancing the

  marketization of care to promote individualism and gender equality have

  been on the European agenda since the 1990s. However, both

  implementation and results have been path-dependent. This study first

  underlines some specificities in the Turkish case-namely, the limited

  welfare state, a large shadow economy, gender roles, patriarchal

  backlash, Islamization, and neoliberalism, all of which receive little

  treatment in the welfare state literature. It then analyzes how these

  specificities interact in the construction of the care regime in Turkey,

  conceptualizing the outcome as distorted commodification of care-namely,

  the continuing ambiguity of care services despite these activities

  producing precarity and positional suffering for caregivers and

  recipients. Finally, the study provides concrete examples from the less

  studied topic of long-term disability care. It presents a perspective on

  Turkey that foregrounds the connections between gendered care imagery

  and case-specific qualities of the commodification of care shaped by the

  long-standing shadow economy, the outsourcing of disability services to

  for-profit private companies, and the introduction of the cash-for-care

  policy. The study analyzes the outcomes of distorted commodification of

  care under these conditions in Turkey vis-a-vis visibility, valuation of

  work, working conditions, and gender inequality.'
affiliation: 'Atasu-Topcuoglu, R (Corresponding Author), Hacettepe Univ, TR-06800
  Ankara, Turkey.

  Atasu-Topcuoglu, R (Corresponding Author), Humboldt Univ, D-10099 Berlin, Germany.

  Atasu-Topcuoglu, Reyhan, Hacettepe Univ, TR-06800 Ankara, Turkey.

  Atasu-Topcuoglu, Reyhan, Humboldt Univ, D-10099 Berlin, Germany.'
article-number: PII S0896634620000357
author: Atasu-Topcuoglu, Reyhan
author-email: atasuere@hu-berlin.de
author_list:
- family: Atasu-Topcuoglu
  given: Reyhan
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1017/npt.2020.35
earlyaccessdate: JAN 2021
eissn: 1305-3299
files: []
issn: 0896-6346
journal: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TURKEY
keywords-plus: 'POLITICS; WORK; MARKETS; FAMILIALISM; CITIZENSHIP; REGIME; RIGHTS;

  FAMILY'
language: English
month: MAY
number-of-cited-references: '107'
orcid-numbers: 'Atasü - Topcuoğlu, Reyhan/0000-0002-9635-7578

  '
pages: 61-87
papis_id: f8751301479362b919f7dabb59504dc6
ref: Atasutopcuoglu2022genderinequality
researcherid-numbers: 'Atasü - Topcuoğlu, Reyhan/J-1362-2013

  Salas, Nellyda/HTR-0085-2023'
times-cited: '5'
title: Gender inequality, the welfare state, disability, and distorted commodification
  of care in Turkey
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000778101300001
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '7'
volume: '66'
web-of-science-categories: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
year: '2022'