• First Language: Turkish

  • Subjects:  Women’s Studies

  • Journal Section: Research Article

  • Authors: Gökçe Nur ŞAFAK
    AKSARAY ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İKTİSADİ VE İDARİ BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ, SİYASET BİLİMİ VE KAMU YÖNETİMİ BÖLÜMÜ
    0000-0003-3531-9698

  • Dates: 1 June 2020

This article is based on the assumption that gender-based division of labor and problems in urban services lead women’s everyday lives to be home-focused and their absence in urban. The article investigates how the gender roles allow urban life to have a womanless appearance and trapping the women in a home-centered life, deprive them from existing in the urban life. The article is based on semi-structured in-depth interviews with fifteen women from Nevşehir. The drawbacks in the context of their everyday urban experiences women encounter has been exposed.

Nevşehir, gender roles, women’s urban experience, women friendly cities, urban experience

Gökçe Nur ŞAFAK  
AKSARAY ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İKTİSADİ VE İDARİ BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ, SİYASET BİLİMİ VE KAMU YÖNETİMİ BÖLÜMÜ
0000-0003-3531-9698