Year 2020 – Volume 12 – Issue 1

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Gizem GÜLMEZ OKAN ÜNİVERSİTESİ 0000-0002-4451-1991 Dates: 1 June 2020 The present study examined the issue of intimate partner violence in LGB’s in Turkey. Research focused on the prevalence and the types of violence that ocur among gay and lesbian partners, the relationships between internalized homophobia and intimate partner violence and the relationships between social support and intimate partner violence. The research participants comprised of 323 adult LGBs inclusive of 105 lesbians (%32,51), 148 gays (%45,82) and 70 bisexuals (%21,67). In the research, “Demographic Information [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Deniz KEMİK ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ 0000-0003-2023-8764 Dates: 1 June 2020 This article aims to understand the mothering experiences of Filipina domestic and care workers and female employers in Hong Kong. It also discusses how mothering experiences differentiate at the intersection of class, ethnicity and migration policies. In line with this objective qualitative research was conducted by using feminist standpoint epistemology. In the research, in-depth interviews were carried out with eighteen Filipina workers and eighteen female employers and four focus group meetings were organised with the [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Emel COŞKUN> DÜZCE ÜNİVERSİTESİ 0000-0002-9562-7775 Özge SARIALİOĞLU   DÜZCE ÜNİVERSİTESİ 0000-0001-5072-0530 Cemile Gizem DİNÇER   ORTA DOĞU TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ 0000-0003-2220-6520 Dates: 1 June 2020 International migration studies have been a gradually politicized research field that is affected by national and international migration policy discourses. Given its financially co-dependent relation to state-centered policies, migration studies can be instrumentalized in the efforts of nation-states to “prevent” migration by legitimizing the “migration management” discourse. The politicized structure of migration studies affects the whole research design methodologically and ethically from [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ayşem SEZER ŞANLI ERZİNCAN BİNALİ YILDIRIM ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İKTİSADİ VE İDARİ BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ, KAMU YÖNETİMİ BÖLÜMÜ 0000-0002-9954-4811 Dates: 1 June 2020 This article problematizes the possibilities of the transformation of everyday life by focusing on the protest of Saturday Mothers. It is claimed that the escape from the monotony of everyday life is possible through protest. Secondly, it is argued that women who are seen as ordinary actors of everyday life, can transform their daily lives as actors of social movements when they participate in [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Gökçe Nur ŞAFAK AKSARAY ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İKTİSADİ VE İDARİ BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ, SİYASET BİLİMİ VE KAMU YÖNETİMİ BÖLÜMÜ 0000-0003-3531-9698 Dates: 1 June 2020 This article is based on the assumption that gender-based division of labor and problems in urban services lead women’s everyday lives to be home-focused and their absence in urban. The article investigates how the gender roles allow urban life to have a womanless appearance and trapping the women in a home-centered life, deprive them from existing in the urban life. The article is [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Selda TUNÇ SUBAŞİ ANKARA UNIVERSITY 0000-0001-7009-4848 Dates: 1 June 2020 In 2000s, Turkey witnessed both a growing number of universities in small rural cities and neoliberalization of universities. Turkey’s small-city universities are primarily a device to boost local economies by creating new demands based on small-town students’ limited mobility. As new consumption styles spread from major cities to smaller ones, forms of celebration gained distinct social and cultural characteristics, reflecting small-town students' different styles articulated with local dynamics. In this study, a new celebration [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Özlem AKKAYA YEDİTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ 0000-0001-9662-6742 Dates: 1 June 2020 In the study, which regards public radio as a multi-layered field of struggle and negotiation, the first two radio plays (Yaşamak and İki Kişi Arasında) by Ağaoğlu will be critically analyzed on the basis of their representations of womanhood and narrative structures in order to see how they were engaged with the gender ideology. The paper will discuss in what ways this contested nature of radio reverberated in the plays by Adalet Ağaoğlu as a [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Miki Suzuki HİM ONDOKUZ MAYIS ÜNİVERSİTESİ 0000-0002-1426-8695 Dates: 1 June 2020 This paper discusses a paradoxical implication of employment for women’s empowerment in flexiblecapitalism. Export-oriented factories employ women from the poorer sections of a society and theirearnings make substantial contribution to poverty reduction at a household level. However, animplication of wage work for women’s empowerment is contentious. Many socialist feminist criticshighlight exploitative aspects of export-oriented industries. The micro-level studies point out women’sempowering experiences through employment in daily life. Employing a materialist feministperspective and Bourdieu’s [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ayla DENİZ ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ0000-0001-5964-0131  Dates: 1 June 2020 This study discusses the changing geographies of intimacy by focusing on the experiences of femaleTinder users in Istanbul. Within the scope of the study, in-depth interviews were conducted with 28women in Istanbul. Based on these interviews, the flows of how women use Tinder have been createdand the locations in which the app is used have been identified. The study revealed that women usethis mobile application secretly and they do not actively use it in the neighborhoods where they liveand work. [...]

Birincil Dil: Türkçe Konu:  Kadın Araştırmaları Araştırma Bölümü: Araştırma Makaleleri Yazar/lar: Ayla DENİZ   ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ 0000-0001-5964-0131 Türkiye Tarih:  June 1, 2020 This study discusses the changing geographies of intimacy by focusing on the experiences of female Tinder users in Istanbul. Within the scope of the study, in-depth interviews were conducted with 28women in Istanbul. Based on these interviews, the flows of how women use Tinder have been createdand the locations in which the app is used have been identified. The study revealed that women usethis mobile application secretly and they do not actively [...]