Year 2016 – Volume 8 – Issue 1

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nüket Örnek BÜKEN HÜTF Tıp Tarihi ve Etiği AD Başkanı Dates: 1 January 2009 İzmir, Adana, Trabzon, Bursa, Samsun, Amasya, Ankara, Sinop, Afyon, Kırşehir, Erzurum, Diyarbakır, Kayseri, Gümüşhane, Mersin, İstanbul… women, cities, Murathan Mungan Nüket Örnek BÜKEN HÜTF Tıp Tarihi ve Etiği AD Başkanı Dergipark Full Text

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Alparslan NAS Marmara Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Dates: 1 June 2016 In Turkey, Justice and Development Party AKP holds a single-party government since 2002 with a conservative, pro-Islamist and anti-feminist political ideology. AKP’s authoritarian tone towards women increased particularly after 2011 when the party gained its third consecutive election victory. In this regard, the abolishment of “The Ministry of Women and Family” and instead the foundation of “The Ministry of Family and Social Policies” MFSP in 2011 was criticized by feminist activism, with the claim [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Temmuz GÖNÇ   Anadolu Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi, Sosyoloji Bölümü Dates: 1 June 2016 The number of male undergraduate nursing students in Turkey is rapidly increasing since 2007. Drawing on the data of a quantitative research conducted in Eskisehir in 2015, this paper aims to comparatively describe male and female nursing students on the aspects of reasons of choosing nursing, thoughts on nursing occupation, relating occupations with sexes, and accepting gender stereotypes. A questionnaire was applied to the sample of 232 undergraduate nursing students and SPSS [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Sultan YAVUZ ÖZİNANIR Ankara Üniversitesi, Kadın Çalışmaları Dates: 1 June 2016 Muslims Against Violence Towards Women as an interpretation of Islam from women's perspective This article discusses The Initiative of Muslims Against Violence to Women who interpret Islam with a women's perspective, or in their own words who are trying to disproove the anti-women arguments attributed to Islam within Islam. The article focuses on the activities and the experience of the members of the Initiative, by interviews with the Initiative members on a series [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ümüt AKAGÜNDÜZ Ankara Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi Dates: 1 June 2016 Women’s movement in the Second Constitutional monarchy and an article by Şukufe Nihal: On Today’s young women This article relates the main figures of the women’s movement in the Second Constitutional monarchy to the life of Şukufe Nihal. This evaluation is followed by an article by her: On Today’s young women. This evaluation, transcription and translation provides a new light into the intellectual life in late Ottoman era and the actual and desired [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Emel COSKUN Düzce Üniversitesi, Sosyoloji Bölümü, Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi 0000-0002-9562-7775 Dates: 1 June 2016 Gender factor in Turkey’s migration regime: A case of Ugandan migrant women Previous research shows that gender is a central organising principle in migration processes. Gendered migration has also become visible in Turkey initially with the migration from ex-Eastern Bloc countries and later in new migration flows from diverse countries. Recently, migrant women from Sub-Saharan African countries create a good example of new gendered migration flows in Turkey. Therefore this article [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Hasan ASLAN Pamukkale Üniversitesi Çalışma Ekonomisi ve Endüstri İlişkileri Anabilim Dalı Yüksek Lisans Öğrencisi. 0000-0003-3935-4124 Dates: 1 June 2016 Home-based work is especially seen among the women to carry out houseworks and contribute to their household income. In this study, the aim is to compare socio-economic lives between two groups, the women who work for subcontractor employer and the women who work as self-employed in textile and textile supplier sector, particularly in Denizli. In this context, why the women in two groups prefer the [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Fatma Özlem TEZCEK   Ordu Üniversitesi, Ünye İ.İ.B.F., İktisat Bölümü Özlem POLAT   Ordu Üniversitesi, Sos. Bil. Enst.,İktisat Ana Bilim Dalı Dates: 1 June 2016 The workers of the factory home This study aims to examine the dynamic and complex relationship between capitalism and patriarchy in the case of home-based working activities of Turkish women recently. We will introduce a specific field research about life and working conditions of home-based working women which took place in a shanty town in Izmir, Turkey. The introduction process will [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Gülmelek DOĞANAY Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi, İİBF Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü Dates: 1 June 2016 The individuals who were forced to be uniform by the official discourse based on silence and assimilation, in some special cases, hide their differences and memories or do not know anything about them. The study focuses on Çaykaralı women's role on the creation/forgetting/transmission of the collective memory articulated to their culture. The aim of the article is to understand how women perceive the history and cultural experiences that men wrote, played [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Derya ACUNER Dates: 1 June 2016 Studies dealing with women’s urban experiences have increased in number and varied in terms of scope especially after 1980’s. However, interestingly it still is not a popular topic in Turkey even though urban studies have been one of the hottest fields within Turkish academia. This phenomenon proves the critique of feminist authors working on urban issues that urban theories overlook gender. In addition to the efforts to understand the city as a construction from women’s perspective, another major [...]