Year 2019 – Volume 11 – Issue 2

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Veysi BAYDAR Cengiz KILIÇ Ayşe Sezen SERPEN Gülay GÜNA Dates:25 December 2019 Problematic and prejudiced attitudes and behaviors such as sexism, gender apartheid, gender-based violence and misogyny are maintained and strengthened by the influence of gender perception arising from social and cultural norms. In this regard misogyny, which is shaped and fed by the hatred and prejudice against women, leads to social problems such as gender inequality, sexism, and gender apartheid. Feminist theories and naturally feminist practices focus on these concepts, referring to [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Cansu DAYAN Dates: 25 December 2019 With an almost 30-year-history, Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS) graduate program is not only an institution of knowledge production but also an area of political action in Turkey. Different from mainstream academic disciplines, GWS resides in a sophisticated, multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary vantage point making accounts of patriarchal system and of the world from women’s lenses. This paper aims to discuss the influence of three different political conjunctures within the historical development of GWS on the situation of [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Çiğdem Yasemin ÜNLÜ Dates:25 December 2019 This study focuses on informal barriers about women’s working in public sphere and how women are finding solutions to this problem; accordingly, field research was conducted in a tailor shop as an example of semi-public space. In this ethnographic field research that benefits from feminist methodological perspective, participant observation, and informal/unstructured interviews were conducted and also verbal data was gathered from 8 women through semi-structured interviews. According to findings of the study, it was observed that women [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Derya Gül ÜNLÜ Dates: 25 December 2019 As parents participate in online environment, digital contents produced with regard to parenting has become popular, thereby allowing individuals to have access to information or suggestions they need for their own parenting roles easily. However, whether these digitalized are independent of gender codes is still a question of debate. The study, which is conducted within this perspective, focuses on whether contents of websites, which provide information and suggestions on daily parenting practices are independent of gender [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Gökçesu AKŞİT Dates: 25 December 2019 As an antidote to a bias in the literature that has always made the male more visible, Hippocrates’s novel way of making the woman, produced a new entity for observation, and led to the emergence of a new profession of medicine, gynecology. In this way, the “white armed” women of ancient times were brought into the realm of the visible. Examination of the case histories of women in the corpus revealed that the observational style was used [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors:Gül YAŞARTÜRK Dates: 25 December 2019 Representations of the mother are trapped into certain patterns which we come across particularly in the movies Stella Dallas (1939), A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Kramer vs Kramer (1979). Hollywood cinema has been perpetuate patriarchal myths and it is possible to sort the representations of the mother under four categories: the good mother, the bad mother, the heroine mother and the silly mother. In this paper The Florida Project , Lady Bird , Three Billboards Outside [...]