Year 2021 – Volume 13 – Issue 1

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Tansu GÖKÇE  (Sorumlu Yazar) GALATASARAY ÜNİVERSİTESİ, SOSYAL BİLİMLER ENSTİTÜSÜ, FELSEFE (DR) 0000-0003-3373-4660 Dates: 10 June 2021 The philosophy of Spinoza has aroused interest again with the work of Australian feminist thinkers Genevieve Lloyd and Moira Gatens and has been an important moment for contemporary feminist philosophy with thinkers such as contemporary sexual difference feminists Rosi Braidotti and Elizabeth Grosz following a Deleuzian-Spinozist theoretical line. The first Spinozist feminist debates were shaped around the problems of sexual difference feminism and Spinoza was considered as a [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Özgür Saadet DOĞAN (Sorumlu Yazar) DOKUZ EYLÜL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ, FELSEFE BÖLÜMÜ, FELSEFE TARİHİ ANABİLİM DALI 0000-0001-5479-1125 Dates: 10 June 2021 Can we separate the reason with genders? In this article, I hope to explain the answer to this question in relation to social institutionalized practices. Concentrating on relationship between dualist mindset that emerged in the conceptualizing reason, namely reason-body duality, and dichotomy of masculinity-femininity expressed in symbolic order, I aim to exposition the masculine character of asserted genderless reason and identify with between [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Elif BOZKURT ANKARA ÜNİVERSİTESİ 0000-0003-1126-205X Dates: 10 June 2021 In this research, the public relations activities of the Suffrage Movement (1848-1920), which created the first feminist wave in the USA, have been examined. The public relations activities used by the feminist movement have been conceptualized as "purple public relations" situating within the theoretical framework of the cultural-economic model of the critical public relations tradition. By doing so, it is aimed to bring a new concept to activist public relations and feminist literature. In the [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Osman ARASLI (Sorumlu Yazar) TOKAT GAZİOSMANPAŞA ÜNİVERSİTESİ, ERBAA SOSYAL VE BEŞERİ BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ, İLETİŞİM VE TASARIMI BÖLÜMÜ, İLETİŞİM TASARIMI VE MEDYA ANABİLİM DALI 0000-0001-9235-3724 Dates: 10 June 2021 Commercial films, which legalize the consumption culture and its ideology, do not only provide women with a number of ideal identities. Also, as the commercials for the International Women’s Day March 8th illustrate, feminism and feminist values are reduced to a tool of capitalist consumption culture. For this reason, in this paper, four commercial films broadcasted on [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Gamze TOKSOY (Sorumlu Yazar) MİMAR SİNAN GÜZEL SANATLAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ, SOSYOLOJİ BÖLÜMÜ 0000-0002-7506-897X Dates: 10 June 2021 Ecofeminism is constituted by different feminist approaches and environmental studies including critiques of modernity, capitalism, and neoliberalism. The book Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva has been a source of inspiration for many feminists with their criticism of the current system after its first edition in 1993. The authors regarded ecofeminism as a criticism of both the patriarchal science and the degradation of nature, and they [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Gönül Cemre ABACIK (Sorumlu Yazar) SÜLEYMAN DEMİREL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ, SOSYOLOJİ BÖLÜMÜ, UYGULAMALI SOSYOLOJİ ANABİLİM DALI 0000-0001-6824-9855 Songül SALLAN GÜL SÜLEYMAN DEMİREL ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ, SOSYOLOJİ BÖLÜMÜ, UYGULAMALI SOSYOLOJİ ANABİLİM DALI 0000-0003-1107-7372 Dates: 10 June 2021 In this article, masculine domination relations in traffic as a public space are discussed in the context of experiences of disabled females. A classification of masculine domination relations of the disabled females in traffic in Isparta, where the percentages of both the disabled population and people owning a car [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Sercan EKLEMEZLER (Sorumlu Yazar) BURSA TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İNSAN VE TOPLUM BİLİMLERİ FAKÜLTESİ, SOSYOLOJİ BÖLÜMÜ 0000-0003-3198-8413 Selda ADİLOĞLU   BURSA TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İNSAN VE TOPLUM BİLİMLERİ FAKÜLTESİ, SOSYOLOJİ BÖLÜMÜ 0000-0002-9725-436X Dates: 10 June 2021 The presence of women in the labor market, whose immigration began to be accepted in the 1970s, is exposed to an insensitivity that also includes invisibility. Women's labor, which often takes place in a position defined as secondary and reserve labor or as “women's work”, can be further devalued when it comes to [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Bilge ŞAHİN (Sorumlu Yazar) BOLU ABANT İZZET BAYSAL ÜNİVERSİTESİ 0000-0003-2101-7074 Dates: 1 January 2009 In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sexual violence crimes are widespread and committed systematically. To challenge these crimes, international organizations and non-governmental organizations provide support to the Congolese legal system. They focus on strengthening the legal framework on sexual violence crimes, facilitating access to justice for survivors of these crimes, and prosecuting the perpetrators. While sexual violence crimes result from the continuum of gendered violence from peacetime to conflict, [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Seda KALEM (Sorumlu Yazar) İSTANBUL BİLGİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, HUKUK FAKÜLTESİ, KAMU HUKUKU BÖLÜMÜ, HUKUK FELSEFESİ VE SOSYOLOJİSİ ANABİLİM DALI 0000-0002-2404-9429 Dates: 10 June 2021 Sexual violence is one of the most serious forms of violence against women and as such it is also the type that is hardest to unravel. Universities, being settings where large number of people work together for long periods of time, are also hierarchical institutions with a high probability of sexual violence. In Turkey special units for the prevention of sexual [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Özlem CANKURTARAN (Sorumlu Yazar) HACETTEPE ÜNİVERSİTESİ, İKTİSADİ VE İDARİ BİLİMLER FAKÜLTESİ, SOSYAL HİZMET BÖLÜMÜ, SOSYAL HİZMET PR. 0000-0003-2243-0274 Günseli Ayça ŞALDIRDAK KIRŞEHİR AHİ EVRAN ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ, SOSYOLOJİ BÖLÜMÜ 0000-0002-7843-1359 Dates: 10 June 2021 It is well known that most women who had been exposed to sexual violence can not or not willingly speak about it as easily as they do about physical violence. There are various reasons why women do not share or cannot share what they experienced. One of their concern is [...]