Year 2019 – Volume 11 – Issue 1

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nihan BOZOK Dates: 26 May 2019 In this article, firstly, I propose that the illnesses that have been trapped into medical language and have moved away from life for a long time, can be brought back to life through the potentials of literature. I trace this argument in Peride Celal’s novel Üç Yirmidört Saat (Three Twenty-Four Hours) written at the end of 1970s. Literary texts can do things which medical reports, medical imaging techniques or medical course books cannot achieve. They can put [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors:Çiğdem Yasemin ÜNLÜ Dates: 26 May 2019 In this article, I try to discuss feminist methodology in reference to my field experiences during an ethnographic research on tailors. In the study, I investigated women’s experiences in a tailor shop, as an example of semi-public sphere, in Bursa. In this article, firstly, I explain my questionings on my research’s methodological position concerning feminist methodology. Then, I continue with a discussion about researcher-participant relationship based upon my field experiences and questions that I encountered in the [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Emel UZUN AVCİ Dates: 26 May 2019 Femininity and masculinity are the outcomes of a social reproduction rather than a biological one. It is possible to see the traces of this social reproduction in issues as to the positioning of the woman in the social life, working life, and domestic labor. The structure that works against the woman with regard to the domestic division of labor, also affects the working life of the woman, in this context, the genderbased pressures experienced by women [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Petek ONUR Dates: 26 May 2019 The ethnographic study of the relationship between gender and Islam in Turkey has a recent history which dates back to the early 1980s. The ethnographies conducted by Carol Delaney, Julie Marcus and Nancy and Richard Tapper constitute the initial discursive period with a number of commonalities in their research questions and analysis, most important of which is a claim about how gender hierarchy is legitimized in Turkish society through Islamic premises. Based on the critiques of Western [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Zehra YILMAZ Dates: 26 May 2019 This article focuses on the intersections between the religion and the women issues within the integration policies of Turkey. In the integration process, the woman issue comes into prominence image because it belongs to woman’s own culture, which she left traumatically. Besides, for women establishing a connection with their traditional values and roots are generally maintained upon women. Within that period, the relation between women and religion are analyzed together in a meaningful way. This article addresses [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors:Murat Arpacı Dates: 26 May 2019 This study discusses how the femme fatale image is constructed socially, politically and culturally. Femme fatale character which is the subject of works produced in many different literary and visual fields particularly painting, literature and cinema from the 19th century to these days, includes intellectual lines that enable us to discuss the gender regime and body policies of modern society. The construction of femme fatale has emerged as a product of the anxieties, fears and reflexes that the [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Emine Balcı Dates: 26 May 2019 This article analyzes the historical process of women’s introduction into the legal profession through a gender perspective based on the argument that the equality of opportunities provided for women in Turkey in their admissions to law schools is not maintained in their admissions into the profession due to the obstacles that originate from gender stereotypes. Westernization began in the Ottoman period and changed legal professions during the establishment of the Republic. Kemalist ideology and feminism are the [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors:Ezgi Sarıtaş Dates: 26 May 2019 In this article transforming discourses on female homosociality will be examined to be followed by an analysis of Fatma Aliye’s Refet (1898). During late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Ottoman-Turkish male intellectuals were associating female homosociality with ignorance, backwardness and female homoeroticism while women were defining a new understanding of friendship through borrowing elements from hetero-romantic love and companionate marriage, male friendship and patriotic camaraderie as well as kinship and household bonds. Fatma Aliye defined a female public sphere [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Özlem Alikılıç Şule Baş Dates: 26 May 2019 Feminist studies have been effected by the digital innovations as well. Since feminism has been an arguable topic in digital World, individuals have started sharing their views and arguments women rights, women problems, The foundation of this research was revealed by the observation of digital feminism content that were posted at social media platforms. The perception of feminism in Turkey hasn’t still been placed correctly. Unfortunately, social media users in Turkey have still failure in [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ezgi PEHLİVANLİ KADAYİFCİ Dates: 26 May 2019 This article aims to understand the factors creating gendered aspects in professional culture of engineering and its transformation in contemporary Turkey by using a theoretical tool called "Gendered Engineering Culture”. The results of this study showed that engineering profession has a prestigious image in Turkey’s society which is based on gendered codes and ideals. Mentioned codes mainly adress male engineer as the ideal type whose characteristics have certain limits peculiar to Turkey. The results of this [...]