Year 2020 – Volume 12 – Issue 2

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Erman Örsan YETİŞ (Sorumlu Yazar) ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ 0000-0001-7088-8138 Dates: 20 January 2020 Views that emphasize the participation of men as part of the solution in the prevention of violence against women and girls have become increasingly important. Questioning the ways men can actively participate in the prevention of violence reveals the missing aspects in our understanding of how they perceive violence in the first place. The psychosocial approach adopted in the field of criminology may provide an opportunity to develop satisfactory answers addressing these [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Esra KARAKUŞ UMAR (Sorumlu Yazar) ATATÜRK ÜNİVERSİTESİ, OLTU BEŞERİ VE SOSYAL BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ, SOSYAL HİZMET BÖLÜMÜ 0000-0003-1764-9394 Dates: 20 January 2020 Physical violence is the most obvious form of violence. A person who has been subjected to physical violence is aware of the violence. Examples of psychological, economic or digital violence represent areas of uncertain boundaries, both for the victim of violence and for the perpetrator. However, the individual should be aware of what he / she experiences first in preventing violence. The individual [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Elif AKÇALI (Sorumlu Yazar) KADİR HAS ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ 0000-0002-7372-7468 İrem İNCEOĞLU KADİR HAS ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ 0000-0002-2430-5517 Dates: 20 January 2020 Drawing its data from the findings of the research titled Gender Equality in Television Series (2018), which is one of the most up-to-date studies that reveals via a comprehensive sample the limitations of representations of men and women on screen, this article aims to rethink and re-evaluate the research’s results through textual analysis. The data reveals that the ways in which characters [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: İlknur KARANFİL (Sorumlu Yazar) BEYKOZ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, SOSYAL BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ, SİYASET BİLİMİ VE ULUSLARARASI İLİŞKİLER BÖLÜMÜ 0000-0001-5617-6281 Dates: 20 January 2020 In this study, Mehmet Eroglu's "Kusma Kulübü" novel will be examined as an example of the September 12 coup d’etat novels in Turkish Literature which emerged after the defeat of the leftist movement. The main purpose of this study is the evaluation of Kusma Kulübü as a September 12 novel in the context of questioning and reconstruction of masculinity. September 12 novels, when selfquestionings, [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Güler ÖZDEMİR (Sorumlu Yazar) İSTANBUL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, SİYASAL BİLGİLER FAKÜLTESİ 0000-0001-9877-6306 Dates: 20 January 2020 In the relationship between nationalism and gender, the masculine fiction of nationalism functions by “objectifying” women. Nationalist ideologies, which construct a masculine discourse, attract women to national cases, while forcing them to stand in standardized patterns of action. In this context, although the Ulkucu women were in the back services of MHP in the period before 1980, it is seen that MHP mobilized women more in the framework of series [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Adalet GÜÇLÜ (Sorumlu Yazar) BOZOK ÜNİVERSİTESİ 2002-2020-3005-2020 Hülya ÇAKIR   YOZGAT BOZOK ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ, SOSYOLOJİ BÖLÜMÜ 0000-0001-8115-4076 Dates: 20 January 2020 Syrians today about Turkey with an estimated population of five million, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and live in Israel and India. They live mostly in the province of Mardin in Turkey and villages. Syriacs are defined as a people who live in Mesopotamia and speak the Aramian language and belong to the Christian religion. This definition stems from the Syriac identity based on [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Leyla BEKTAŞ (Sorumlu Yazar) İSTANBUL GELİŞİM ÜNİVERSİTESİ, SAĞLIK BİLİMLERİ YÜKSEKOKULU, SOSYAL HİZMETLER BÖLÜMÜ, SOSYAL HİZMET PR. (İNGİLİZCE) (TAM BURSLU) 0000-0002-7929-2469 Dates: 20 January 2020 This research focuses on the daily lives of the urban poor who live on the periphery of the city and tries to understand the manifestation of urban policies on home and neighborhood levels. It examines the home, neighborhood and city experiences of women living in Limontepe, one of the squatter (gecekondu) districts of Izmir, on the edge of urban transformation. [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Özge DUMAN (Sorumlu Yazar) HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, SPOR BİLİMLERİ FAKÜLTESİ 0000-0002-9403-9226 Canan KOCA   HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, SPOR BİLİMLERİ FAKÜLTESİ 0000-0001-7484-0545 Dates: 20 January 2020 Yoga has undergone a change in the Western world with its development in fitness culture and has become a part of the cultural industry. In this study, we analyzed yoga as a social field by using the action theory of Bourdieu to understand this changing structure of yoga. After the analysis of data obtained through individual interviews with 10 yoga practitioners [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Yağmur NUHRAT İSTANBUL BİLGİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ, SOSYOLOJİ BÖLÜMÜ 0000-0002-3663-9274 Dates: 20 January 2020 Football (soccer) around the world is predominantly a masculine engagement. Moreover, it is a key practice in the production and reinforcement of hegemonic masculinity. As such women’s football is largely overlooked and trivialized and women are othered through football. In this paper, I demonstrate how such trivialization entails an outlook whereby football is deemed a hobby or a social instrument for women rather than work. Feeding off of this [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Özlem AYDOĞMUŞ ÖRDEM ÇUKUROVA ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İLETİŞİM FAKÜLTESİ 0000-0002-9896-3037 Dates: 20 January 2020 After the Second World War, body sociology has become one of the main areas of sociology with the influence of poststructuralist thinkers. Conclusive studies have been put forward especially with the development of health sociology since the second half of the 20th century. This study is based on Foucault's concepts of bio-power and bio politics and Turner's theory of body sociology. The focus of this study is to show how the [...]