The number of grandmothers who provide regular care for their grandchildren and do housework for their daughters or daughters-in-law is increasing in Turkey. While perpetuating traditional gender roles for themselves as a surrogate daughter, wife, or daughter-in-law, these women nonetheless enable younger women to distance themselves from obligatory care work at home. The sociocultural concepts of kinship ties, economic need, or love for grandchildren do not fully explain why grandmothers assume the role of caregiver for their grandchildren. Drawing on interviews with 25 grandmothers from middle-class families in urban Turkey, this article shows, first, that these women’s gendered subjectivity is formed by both habitual and intentional actions that defying the oppression and resistance duality within patriarchal Turkish society. Second, in dialogue with the scholarship on the “classic patriarchal bargain”1and feminist analyses of neoliberal social policy, the article suggests that these grandmothers’ inarticulate desire to live in solidarity with the younger generation of women may be turned into a government instrument in the context of Turkey’s increasingly family-centered neoliberal social policy environment.

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关心团结？土耳其城市祖母育儿与新自由主义保守主义的亲密政治

在土耳其，经常照顾孙辈并为女儿或儿媳做家务的祖母人数正在增加。尽管这些女性将自己作为代孕女儿、妻子或儿媳的传统性别角色延续下去，但这些女性仍然使年轻女性能够远离家中的强制性护理工作。亲属关系、经济需要或对孙辈的爱等社会文化概念并不能完全解释为什么祖母会承担照顾孙辈的角色。本文通过对来自土耳其城市中产阶级家庭的 25 位祖母的采访，首先表明，这些女性的性别主体性是由习惯性和故意行为共同形成的，这些行为挑战了土耳其男权社会中的压迫和反抗二元性。第二，1以及对新自由主义社会政策的女权主义分析，文章表明，在土耳其日益以家庭为中心的新自由主义社会政策环境下，这些祖母与年轻一代妇女团结一致生活的口齿不清的愿望可能会变成一种政府工具。