Case Study of Women's Social Movements in Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia

The problem of this study is related to diversity of women organizations'' demands in Turkey، Egypt، Saudi Arabia and Malaysia that are belong to a single religious and cultural block. To illustrate this problem، using multiple case study (questionnaire and text analysis techniques) and applying Axel Honeth theory، the impact of political، ethnic and religious domination in shaping women''s movements in these four countries was studied. In each of these countries، in terms of different social structures، various species of women''s social movement are dominant that explain diversity of women''s demands. The results of regression analysis indicated that 66 percent of diversity of women''s demands are dependent to political، ethnic and religious structures. So، due to the amount، the first part of the research hypothesis based on the dependeny of women''s demands to the mentioned structures had been confirmed. To test the Honeth Theory and hypotheses of this research، CART software and decision tree analysis were used. The results of this test revealed that because of political structures'' broad commitment in explaining the diversity of women''s demands، there are more similarities among women''s movement in Malaysia and Turkey in one hand and Egypt and Saudi Arabia on other hand. Also، the results showed that women''s dominant movement in Turkey and Egypt is against misrecognition and in Saudi Arabia is against ignore in recognition and in Malaysia is function of resources mobilization.