Year 2022 – Volume 14 – Issue 2

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Merve YILMAZBİLEK Dates: December 15, 2022 This study aims to examine the relationship between women's experiences during menstruation and patriarchal capitalism. In this direction, it questions how women experience menstruation, which is a social construction area, the elements of pressure in these experiences, and whether women can (or cannot) struggle with this pressure. In this study, based on feminist methodology, in-depth interviews were conducted with twenty-one women. How menstruation, which is a biological process, has become a social and cultural construction for women, and [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nazlı ŞENSES, Funda GENÇOĞLU Dates: December 15, 2022 Studies carried out by women researchers, especially with a feminist perspective, emphasize both the inevitability and indispensability of talking about the authenticity of the migratory experiences of women. Moreover, the effort is to show maximum attention to do this authenticity without falling into the trap of 'othering'. For this reason, in these studies the discussions on concepts such as agency/subject, subjectivity and the state of being an agent in the case of migrant women have [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Mustafa GÜLTEKİN Dates: 15 Aralık 2022 One of the main criticisms against Esping-Andersen's study on the welfare state (1990/2007) is the feminist critique that it neglects women's unpaid work in the family as the main source of the welfare. This criticism suggests that studies without considering the paid and unpaid work of women as a whole fail to fully capture the inequalities in terms of the participation of women and men in employment. The current welfare regime in Turkey is a dominant familialism [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: İlkay ÖZKÜRALPLİ Dates: December 15, 2022 Regarding to the attempts and imaginations for the solution of male violence, the category of man is mostly discussed only in relation to the problem. However, we do not see/hear enough men themselves in these feminist struggles. For a significant solution, the transformation in need must be realized by responsible agents of that problem. Thus, the first step will be to recognize the problem rather than the solution. In this context, the problematic of this study follows the question [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Canan BALAN Dates: December 2015, 2022 This essay focuses on the narratives and agencies of two women in the early period of cinema in the Ottoman/Turkish lands. One of these narratives is representational and based on fiction, while the other is based on first-person experience. One of these two women is the first woman film producer and assistant director, namely Sabahat Filmer, while the other is the main character of the only surviving silent film for which Sabahat Filmer worked. Entitled Binnaz, named after [...]

First Language: English Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Tuğba KARABULUT Dates: December 15, 2022 Hilda Doolittle, an American poet, playwright, and novelist known by the initials H.D., was one of the few female figures of the male-dominated early modernist era. Her early works are of crucial importance as they are associated with Imagism, the literary movement shaped by Ezra Pound as a reaction to the wordiness, indirectness, and sentimentality of Victorian and Romantic poetry. H.D. played an important role in Imagism. Ezra Pound, who suggested that Hilda Doolittle append the signature [...]

First Language: English Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Dilek ÖZTÜRK YAĞCI Dates: December 15, 2022 This study focuses on the appropriation of the Bildungsroman genre in Jeanette Winterson’s first book Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (1985), a novel which is often referred to as the fictionalization of the author’s upbringing. The novel traces the coming out story of the lesbian protagonist Jeanette who struggles to live in a fundamentalist evangelical community that fails to embrace Jeanette’s sexual orientation and denounces it as “unnatural passions.” This conflict on (sexual)identity between the protagonist [...]