Year 2020 – Volume 12 – Issue 2

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Binaz BOZKUR MERSİN ÜNİVERSİTESİ, EĞİTİM FAKÜLTESİ 0000-0002-3821-7489 Dates: 1 January 2009 The issue of women empowerment is an increasingly important issue. Women's empowerment encompasses many social, economic, cultural, political, legal and psychological dimensions. Psychological power is a field that has the potential to affect all other power fields. The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable Turkish measurement tool to measure psychological empowerment in women. The measurement tool developed is aimed to determine the psychological strength of women or the [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Güler Cansu AĞÖREN YILDIRIM BEYAZIT ÜNİVERSİTESİ 0000-0002-0726-7766 Dates: 20 January 2020 Depressive disorders is a concept structured by ontological presuppositions that constitute boundaries between individual-social, internal-external, essential-influential, body-mind. Notwithstanding that these ontological dichotomies are rooted in the biomedical conceptualisation of depression, they are neither peculiar to this conceptualisation nor unrelated to each other and to the political, socio-cultural, economic background. Depending on the feminist critique, it can be argued that these ontological presumptions are different aspects of an extensive ontological ground established to enable [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Esra KARAKUŞ UMAR 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 who [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Muzaffer Derya NAZLIPINAR SUBAŞI DUMLUPINAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ 0000-0002-0798-1142 Dates: 20 January 2020 The dichotomies of 'self/other', ‘subject/object’, 'mind/body', ‘reason/emotion’ and 'materiality/rationality', having been initiated and systematized by Plato and Aristotle respectively, and accepted as ‘Cartesian Duality’ with the ideas of French philosopher René Descartes, have been gradually turned into strongly established binary opposition of ‘male/female’ by patriarchal societies. This transformation process deriving from female body and sexuality has defined and marginalized woman in accordance with androcentric terms and imprisoned her within patriarchal constraints. Women [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Zelal ÖZDEMİR (Sorumlu Yazar) MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY 0000-0002-6839-8903 Dates: 20 January 2020 This study examines the case of two Islamist women's CSOs, AKDER and the BKP, whose agency transformed under the combined impact of the removal of the headscarf ban and the increasing authoritarian gender climate in Turkey. Based on data garnered from interviews conducted in 2012 and 2018, it seeks to understand the frames of gender, gender equality, motherhood and work-life balance that are conceptualised by these two CSOs through the employment [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Gökben DEMİRBAŞ (Sorumlu Yazar) TRAKYA UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND ADMINISTRATİVE SCIENCES 0000-0002-0633-4672 Türkiye Dates: 20 January 2020 Geographical research methods have been increasingly used in social sciences due to the interest in how social behaviour and space are mutually constructed. However, there is still a limited number of studies dealing with the application of such methods, the variety of produced data, and field experiences. In this paper, I reflect on fieldwork experiences of my doctoral research, which investigated how gender and class dynamics [...]

Birincil Dil: Türkçe Konu:  Kadın Araştırmaları Araştırma Bölümü: Araştırma Makaleleri Yazar/lar: Zelal ÖZDEMİR MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY 0000-0002-6839-8903 Türkiye Asuman KEYSAN  MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY 0000-0002-5377-2114 Türkiye Tarih:  This study examines the case of two Islamist women's CSOs, AKDER and the BKP, whose agency transformed under the combined impact of the removal of the headscarf ban and the increasing authoritarian gender climate in Turkey. Based on data garnered from interviews conducted in 2012 and 2018, it seeks to understand the frames of gender, gender equality, motherhood and work-life balance that are conceptualised by [...]

Birincil Dil: Türkçe Konu:  Kadın Araştırmaları Araştırma Bölümü: Araştırma Makaleleri Yazar/lar: Gökben DEMİRBAŞ   TRAKYA UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES 0000-0002-0633-4672 Türkiye Tarih:  Geographical research methods have been increasingly used in social sciences due to the interest in how social behaviour and space are mutually constructed. However, there is still a limited number of studies dealing with the application of such methods, the variety of produced data, and field experiences. In this paper, I reflect on fieldwork experiences of my doctoral research, which investigated how gender and class dynamics shape women’s experiences [...]