Year 2010 – Volume 2 – Issue 2

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Jülide KARAKOÇ Dates: 1 January 2009 marriage, female identity, marital status Jülide KARAKOÇ Dergipark Full Text

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Funda Şenol Cantek Dates: 1 January 2009 Laleli, Halide Edip, Akile Hanım Sokağı Funda Şenol Cantek Dergipark Full Text

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Güzin YAMANER Ankara University State Conservatory Dates: 1 June 2010 This article claims that the art which is considered as universal by Europe, suppossed to be the cradle of civilization is imperialist and thereby it is a device of sexist system. In the light of this claim, this text is a criticisim about art and sexism between Europe and Turkey with the experience of two big international theatre festivals of Amsterdam and Oslo which have taken place in a year. This text priotises the feminist [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Omca ÖZDEMİR Ankara University, Faculty of Law Dates: 1 June 2010 Understanding rape from the point of view of male hegemony Consideration of rape as an act which has social codes rather than just a private act has ensured rape to be an investigation topic within social sciences. Examination of the issue in the framework of feminist theory resulted in inclusion of hegemony in gender relations to discussions on rape. While classical feminist texts attributed a subsidiary role to male violence in maintenance of male [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Hatice Tezer ASAN Marmara University Dates: 1 June 2010 Gender Differences in Textbooks and Teachers' Gender Perceptions This research has been made to determine sex perception of teachers who are working in primary schools and examine the text books which are thought in primary schools from the point of view of gender. With this purpose, a questionarre was given to teachers for data collection. At the same time, textbook pictures and passages were evaluated to determine the number of boys and girls, the place [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Sermin ÇAKMAK Ankara University, Women's Studies Dates: 1 June 2010 Although they have been walking on the roads of migration through the human history, women have had to wait for long years to be made their voice heard. As for that the immigrant women’s introduction to migration studies and media after years, goes along with their representation as “authentic women” or “aggrieved women”. The studies that problematized the difficulties that women experience within this process was surely significant because of bringing into view the significant [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ece Öztan Yıldız Teknik University Dates: 1 June 2010 A forgotten migration and citizenship experience: First generation immigrant women and The Netherlands Union of Women from Turkey Despite acknowledging the feminization of immigration there are a few studies giving immigrant and ethnic minority women greater visibility within receiving country context and using gender as an analytic concept in migration researches. Particularly, there is a tendency that women’s migration has still been acknowledged as “dependant” or “secondary” migratory movement in guest worker regimes’ traditional “family [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nilgün DALKESEN Muğla University History Section Dates: 1 June 2010 History of Turkish women have generally been examined as before and after Islam. For these periods genaralizations are made as there was or was not any gender equality. Since there are very restricted historical sources for the pre-Islamic period, studies related to this period keep repeating each other. In this study, the legends of different Turkic societies are examined as historical sources in comparison under the light of some sociological and anthropological theories. Thus, [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Mithat Kutlar Avesta Yayınları Dates: 1 June 2010 Men's World journal among Ottoman women's journals Women's problems have been a major social problem not only in the Ottoman empire but also worldwide. Ottoman women have seen solidarity with men as a part of the solution for this problem. Ottoman men, alternatively, have complied with this vision sometimes from within a modernist, paternal-protective discourse and sometimes by trying to challenge this discourse. Mevlanzade Rıfat, who was the husband of a woman who published the Women's [...]