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First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: İdil Safiye SOYSEÇKİN Dates: 1 June 2016 This article analyzes strategies developed by middle class mothers to establish balance between their work and care responsiblities in Turkey where no extensive public services are available and childcare is socially and culturally constructed as women’s sole duty with a limited male involvement. The fieldwork of the study is based on accounts of in-depth interviews conducted with nineteen working middle class mothers in the capital city of Turkey, Ankara. Gender inequality results in experiencing work and family [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ebru İNAL   Yalova Üniversitesi Yalova Meslek Yüksekokulu Sivil Savunma ve İtfaiyecilik Programı Nüket PAKSOY ERBAYDAR   Hacettepe Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Halk Sağlığı Anabilim Dalı Dates: 1 June 2016 Analysing National Earthquake Strategy and Action Plan 2012-2023 NESAP with a gender perspective Using a gender perspective in disaster action plans/programs is essential in terms of women’s access to fundamental rights. This study aims to analyse National Earthquake Strategy and Action Plan 2012- 2023 NESAP by a gendered perspective. There are three main axes in NESAP: “Learning [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Dilara GÜRYUVA Ankara Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Radyo Televizyon ve Sinema Bölümü Yüksek Lisans Mezunu Dates: 1 January 2013 The purpose of this study is tracking the representation of psycial beauty and ugliness which determined by western centered capitalist economy and gender in Recep İvedik movies. Content analysis for this purpose shows that the movies represents ugliness as something funny and horrifying and pushing ugliness out of norms. Correspondingly, the representation of beauty shows that the beauty is associated with positive connotations like prestige [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Zehra YILMAZ Van Yüzüncüyıl Üniversitesi, İİBF, Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü Dates: 1 January 2013 How can an Out of the Ordinary War Turn Into an Ordinary Peace: The Peace Process as Women see it We have just started to discuss once again how war harms women, how this harm can be compensated and how a peace that includes women can be consolidated. For now, the most feasable option out of a spiral of war seems to be coming together and discussing peace more. In other [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Cynthia COCKBURN Ankara Üniversitesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Dates: 1 January 2013 Peace is elusive. I don’t mean that it eludes us in a practical sense - we think we have it, and then war returns. This is often so, of course. No. I mean in the sense that it’s difficult to be sure what conditions we may confidently say add up to a time of peace. In 1995-6 I went to interview peace-minded women in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine. It was [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Amy MİLLS Dates: 1 January 2013 This is a short piece that analysez a cartoon from Akbaba in terms of being and Istanbulite, nationalism and the street. A short discussion of the exclusionary spatiality of national belonging reveals different assamblages of urbanity, nation, gender and modernity. Headscarf, Satire, Istanbul, cartoons, modernity Amy MİLLS Dergipark Full Text

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Satı ATAKUL Dates: 1 January 2013 This piece is a combination of Satı's article with the same title that was issued in Eksik Etek, 10th of March 1998, issue 12, page 18, and the story of how the journal was started by a group of women from Ankara. Thanks to some of these women, namely Gülsen Ülker; İlknur Yüksel and Gözde Bac Yıldırım for their cooperation in bringing this together. With love and longing for Satı... Satı ATAKUL Dergipark Full Text [...]