Year 2018 – Volume 10 – Issue 2

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Esra GEDİK Dates: 1 January 2009 Protecting the Neighborhood as an Example of Homosocial Collaboration: Masculinities in Sıfır Bir Series One of the areas in which different representations of gender can be seen is the TV series and characters in them. The viewer can identify themselves with the characters. S/He gets closer to the heroes; a connection between them is established. For this reason, this study examines the homosocial relationships of the male characters who come together to protect the neighborhood in Sıfır Bir [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Büşra KOCATEPE  Sabiha BİLGİ Dates: 1 January 2009 Fatherhood as a Social Construction: The Image of Father in Mothers’ Life Stories Drawing on the life histories and daily life narratives of fifteen mothers living in a small town located in the Western Black Sea Region of Turkey, this study aims to find out how mothers define fatherhood and, in accordance to this definition of fatherhood, how they situate themselves within the society. The study focuses on the image of father in these narratives, the gendered [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Mehmet BOZOK Dates: 1 January 2009 This study discusses fatherhood in Turkey, in the light of the findings of Fatherhood in Turkey Research, comprised of a comprehensive quantitative and a qualitative research focusing on fathers who have children aged 0-10, conducted in 2016, which was conducted by Mother and Child Education Foundation. Here it is argued that fatherhood in Turkey is constructed under the relationships of patriarchy, capitalism and masculinity. Due to gender-based division of labor, the fathers spend most of their time working [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Derya Gül ÜNLÜ Dates: 1 January 2009 The sexual politics of meat written by Carol J Adams deals with the meat that is related to male domination, and the establishment of the society and therefore its dominance over women and animals. The study interprets patriarchy from a critical point of view and through an eco-feminist perspective it evaluates, from past to present, how women's and men's dietary patterns differ culturally, and how this differentiation is being antagonized by the exploited women and eaten animals. [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Tuğba TAŞ Dates: 1 January 2009 Visual Violence in the Images Aiming at Creating Awareness on Violence Against Women in Turkey Violence against women in all forms, including domestic violence, murder and sexual abuse, is a major public problem in Turkey. The images of physically assaulted women are widely circulated. Even the campaigns aiming at preventing and combating violence against women as well as photographs for bringing attention to violence against women as a social problem often reproduce the image of a woman suffering [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Alev ÖZKAZANÇ  Özkan AGTAŞ Dates: 1 January 2009 One of Judith Butler's exceptional contributions to queer and feminist theories is her impressive line of thought on the possibilities of an alternative linguistic and political agency which could challenge the alleged powers and the attacks of hate speech. Within this framework she draws attention to the defects and dangers of politics of censorship which request the state and the law to act against hate speech and thus attribute agency mainly to the state and law. Instead [...]