Year 2017 – Volume 9 – Issue 1

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ayşe DAYI   UNIL-Université de Lausanne Dates: 1 January 2017 In this article, I discuss the technological creation and historical/cultural production of the modern fetus through imaging technologies such as electrofotography and reproductive technologies such as ultrasound, surrogacy and fetal surgery. Simultaneously, I reveal how this technofetus interacts with biomedical discourses and practices, anti-abortion discourses and laws and practices that criminalize pregnancy and birth to transform profoundly the understanding and experience of pregnancy and motherhood. The pregnant women’s body is split into two: woman and [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Selda Taşdemir AFŞAR   Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyoloji Bölümü Aylin Görgün BARAN   Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyoloji Bölümü Canan KOCA   Hacettepe Üniversitesi Spor Bilimleri Fakültesi Dates: 1 January 2017 Factors Preventing Women from Access to Shelters who were Exposed to Violence The establishment of shelters and access to those shelters, considered as the service for intervention to violence, are vital for women, who are exposed to violence, to move away from violence. This study aims to determine the problems faced by women during the [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Onur OKYAR Çankırı Karatekin Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü Dates: 1 January 2017 The purpose of this study is to examine Iran’s perception on women rights which identifies itself with sectarian references in the Islamic world and which is different from other countries from the sectarian and linguistic point of view. In order to achieve this target, I am going to examine the evolution of women’s rights in Iran and discuss the current situation. Afterwards I am going to reveal [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Özge ÖZDEMİR   Ankara Üniversitesi, Kadın Çalışmaları Yüksek Lisans Öğrencisi Dates: 1 January 2017 This study examines how woman's identity was constructed in the Kadınlar Dünyası magazine, which was published in order to speak for women's rights demands during the Constitutional Monarchy. To this end, the editorials of the first 100 daily issues of Kadınlar Dünyası Magazine have been examined. In order to write women's history with the method and framework proposed by Joan W. Scott, the necessity of writing the history of the women's [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Merve ÖZDEMİRKIRAN   Marmara Üniversitesi, Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Selcen ÖNER   Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dates: 1 January 2017 The level of participation of women in labour market is too low %27.5 in Turkey TUİK, 2015 , while the percentage of women academics is 43% YÖK, 2015 . Despite disparities between male and female academics in getting high level administrative positions at universities and regional inequalities, relatively positive picture for female academics in Turkey is also valid for International Relations [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Selin AKYÜZ Bilkent Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Bölümü Burcu DABAK   East Anglia University, Film, TV,Media Bölümü Dates: 1 January 2017 This work analyzes representations of masculinities in Tunç Okan’s movies, Otobüs The Bus and Sarı Mercedes Mercedes Mon Amour . The movies will be analyzed with respect to migration, in general, being on the road, in particular. The theoretical background of the analysis will be based on the questions of “Can subaltern speak?”, borrowed from Spivak 1992 and “Can subaltern be heard?”, [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nazım ÇAPKIN   Candidate,Bogazici University Dates: 1 January 2017 Starting from the central concept of despair as evident in the title of Barış Bıçakçı’s 2004 novel Our Grand Despair, the following reflections intend to set sight on the ways melancholical disposition is represented and how this representation, in turn, determines the discrepancies in narrative voice and t emporal planes of writing and remembrances. To that end, this article urges respectively upon the multifaceted definitions of Platonic love so as to bring about the issue of [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Simel PARLAK Marmara University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance, Turkey Halil EKŞİ Marmara University, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance, Turkey Dates: 1 January 2017 In this research, the perceptions of crime and moral stages of girls pushed to crime are revealed in the basis of feminist ethical approach in order to determine the moral states and perceptions of girls pushed to crime. In the study, with the objective to define moral identities and perceptions [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ayşe DAYI UNIL-Université de Lausanne Dates: 1 January 2017 In this article, I discuss the technological creation and historical/cultural production of the modern fetus through imaging technologies such as electrofotography and reproductive technologies such as ultrasound, surrogacy and fetal surgery. Simultaneously, I reveal how this technofetus interacts with biomedical discourses and practices, anti-abortion discourses and laws and practices that criminalize pregnancy and birth to transform profoundly the understanding and experience of pregnancy and motherhood. The pregnant women’s body is split into two: woman and [...]