Gunay-Erkol, CimenSunbuloglu, Nurseli Yesim2024-10-152024-10-15202400390-67011469-9273https://doi.org/10.1080/03906701.2024.2383633https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/6363Gunay-Erkol, Cimen/0000-0002-1607-9556; Sunbuloglu, Nurseli Yesim/0000-0003-0251-9458Women's and LGBTI + rights have always been under attack in Turkey, but recent developments in AKP's attempts to consolidate a pro-family, pro-birth, and Islamist gender regime based on the 'moral' regulation of women and LGBTI + creates an atmosphere that must be examined in detail. KADEM, a women's GONGO established in 2013, plays a crucial role in this anti-gender backlash context, positioning their line of action as a challenge to the global feminist attempts to impose Western standards on Turkish society while advocating for women's rights from a culturalist position. We analyse KADEM's construction of men and masculinities in the materials on their website to understand their strategies of legitimisation of a form of neopatriarchal masculinity along the traditional 'family values' to see how KADEM serves as a transmitter of an Islamic neopatriarchal culture, with its implicit justifications of men's patriarchal roles and duties in a neoliberal society.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessNeopatriarchygender backlashgender justiceTurkeyKADEMmasculinityArticleWOS:00127939130000110.1080/03906701.2024.23836332-s2.0-85199976458Q2