Women’s rights in post-imperial interwar constitution-making: framing the 1924 Turkish Constitution

diritti delle donne nella fase costituente post-imperiale fra le due guerre: la formazione della costituzione turca del 1924

Abstract

At the end of the IWW, the dissolution of Central Empires led to a wave of constitution-making processes in which the legal role of women was extensively debated. Through an interdisciplinary approach, the article compares the Constitutions approved in this period to build a framework for locating the experience of the 1924 Turkish Constitution and complements Bertil Emrah Oder’s analyses for the Special Issue on “100 Years of the Turkish Constitution”. The comparison, underscoring the variety of elements having impinged on the legal emancipation of women in the analyzed countries, also allows to test whether the metaphor of constitutional waves fits with the study of the evolution of women’s rights.