Year 2011 – Volume 3 – Issue 1

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Özlem ALBAYRAK, Emel MEMİŞ Dates: 1 January 2009 feminism, feminist economics, critical nature Özlem ALBAYRAK, Emel MEMİŞ Dergipark Full Text

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Zehra YILMAZ Dates: 1 January 2011 Zehra YILMAZ Dergipark Full Text

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Çiğdem AKGÜL Ankara University Dates: 1 January 2011 This article aims at effects of places on the person’s lives. It points outs that how places shapes the person’s emotions and opinions through a relationship with t heir gender, age and identities. The otobiyografhy of Ayla Kutlu, one of a famous writer of Turkey, gives us strong and rich examples on this subject. The reason why particullarly a woman writer is choosen is to underline different and important parts of being a woman while being [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Tuğrul ERBAYDAR   Ankara Üniversitesi Halk Sağlığı Anabilim Dalı Nüket Paksoy ERBAYDAR   Hacettepe Üniversitesi Halk Sağlığı Anabilim Dalı Nur OKUTAN   Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Psikoloji Bölümü Dates: 1 January 2011 The Activities of Van Women’s Association VAKAD Women’s Counseling Center between 2004 – 2009 Women in Eastern Turkey experience all types of violence and discrimination against women at the highest level, while they have very limited access to the services they need. Van Women’s Association VAKAD was founded in 2004 to struggle with discrimination and violence [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Elif GAZİOĞLU Centre for Women's Studies, University of York Dates: 1 January 2011 This paper focuses on women activists. It centres on the activists’ perceptions and experiences of becoming and being activists in women’s organizations in Turkey. Turkey has witnessed a gradual increase in the number of women’s organizations since the 1980s. While increasing political and cultural diversification shaped Turkish politics in general throughout the 1980s, women with diverse socio- cultural backgrounds and particular political, religious or ethnic affiliations started to mobilize in women’s [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Didem Gediz GELEGEN Akdeniz Belediyesi İştar Kadın Danışma Merkezi/MERSİN Dates: 1 January 2011 The concept of “rights” is central to most of the arguments on abortion in medical ethics. The common approach is the comparison of embryo’s “right to life” and woman’s “right to decide about her body”; and the issue is handled as a “conflict of interests”. This approach can not embrace the issue. Perhaps, the most important point is neglected. In this essay, I will try to develop my argument from “women’s [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: H Burcu BABA Queen’s University, Department of Sociology Dates: 1 January 2011 Nation states create their sexual regimes not only to discipline and manage the populations within the state but also to establish their differences from other states and set their borders through the bodies of the citizens under their mandate. The article contends that heterosexuality is naturalised through the argument that sexual orientation is an issue which concerns only a small minority of the population that deviates from the norm. In Turkey, the [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ece Cihan ERTEM İstanbul Teknik University Dates: 1 January 2011 The issue of abortion started to be perceived as a public health problem during the late Ottoman era and early Republican Turkey by the state and committing an abortion was accepted as a crime that was committed against the whole society. This paper states that the criminalization of abortion starting from late Ottoman era as an intervention on reproductivity is an act on female body since it implied the assignment of a duty on [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Banu ÇOLAK  Gazi Üniversitesi Dates: 1 January 2011 Kiki Smith Kiki Smith, who challenges common concepts of the erotic representation of woman body is an important representative of abject art which focus on infected, shredded bodies and the biological construct of the female body. After 1980, Kiki Smith’s work is described as female body and physical processes, primitive fears, psychological traumas, half-animal half-human figures, religious icons, death, massacre and moral issues. In relation to postmodern expression, these physical questionings which awaken disgust in the [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Alanur Çavlin BOZBEYOĞLU Dates: 1 January 2011 In this study, I present a critical exploration of the decision-making processes behind contraception and abortion practices in Turkey. Rather than adhering to the mainstream economic reductionist approaches found in population studies literature, I intend to focus on the means of fertility control, i.e. contraception and abortion and their causal relationships with each other. I will underline the interconnectedness between contraception and abortion within social and cultural structures and detail the characteristics of fertility control within the [...]