Year 2009 – Volume 1 – Issue 2

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Burcu ŞENTÜRK Ankara University Dates: 1 June 2009 This study is based on in-depth interviews with mothers whose sons were soldiers of the Turkish Armed Forces TAF and died in the armed conflict in the East and Southeast of Turkey between the years of 1993 and 2006. The narrative of the pain that these mothers suffer after the sudden death of their sons is discussed in relation to notions of nationalism and motherhood. How do these mothers perceive their pain and motherhood, and how [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ayça KURTOĞLU Dates: 1 June 2009 While engaging with the nexus between biological reproduction and sex/gender, this study focuses on the legal regulation of sex reassignment as included in the Civil Code of Turkey. It discusses the constructions of sex/gender and sexualities in the regulation by drawing on the conception of sexual citizenship. By employing the concepts of reproductive femininity and reproductive masculinity, the study claims that the regulation serves to keep sex/gender/sexual categories in order. The study also shows that some women’s motherhood [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Elifhan KÖSE  Ankara Üniversitesi 0000-0001-9909-1923 Dates: 1 June 2009 Drawing the boundries of the body is essential to form of an autonomous, individual human subject. The modern human subject is based on the complementarity of rationalized reason and an individualized body. The standartization of symbolic systems, that is, time, space and language, are used to restrict and regendering. Modern femininity relies upon such an embodiment of gender by means of modern medical science. Body, femininity, gender, medical science, sexuality Elifhan KÖSE Ankara Üniversitesi [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ayse DAYI Dates: 1 June 2009 The U.S. Women's Health Movement WHM , which was launched in the late 1960s and early 1970s, aimed to decrease the medicalization of women’s reproductive lives and increase women’s control over their bodies and health. Its main aim was to empower women in health services. Addressing the gap in the literature on the in-depth exploration of empowerment as it relates to the movement and as perceived by the women receiving reproductive care, I conducted a study between 2001 [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Elif Ekin AKŞİT Dates: 1 June 2009 This study focuses on infertility as an area of possibility and domination from the point of view of women. Interviews conducted with lower and lower middle class women, who attend an infertility treatment center constitute the main axis of this paper. These interviews have revealed that infertility treatment uintentionally lets women interact with each other about their experiences and gain distance from their daily lives on the one hand. Om the other hand, infertility treatment is a [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Esra GEDİK Dates: 1 June 2009 In this study, I want to evaluate mothers of martyrs’ perception of the war and solution while to protect its citizens is the state duty, with the assumption of questioning their son's death, whether they can transform being a mother of a martyr into anti-war women as women examples in the world we have seen. Obviously, as the martyr's mother, these women have acquired new identities. Nevertheless, how the above-mentioned attitude of questioning motherhood is limited by what [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Hakan TOPAL Dates: 1 june 2009 This article explores issues of homeworking and domestic labor with respect to globalized conditions of labor practices by analyzing the possibility of networked alternatives. Each new network provides a potential which needs to be explored according to its successes and failures. Knitting is considered for both its metaphorical and literal implications in Knit++ by xurban_collective from 2002, which critically focused on the possiblity of a social network based on the model of knitting and by taking domestic production [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: ... Dates: 1 January 2009 In this study, I want to evaluate mothers of martyrs’ perception of the war and solution while to protect its citizens is the state duty, with the assumption of questioning their son's death, whether they can transform being a mother of a martyr into anti-war women as women examples in the world we have seen. Obviously, as the martyr's mother, these women have acquired new identities. Nevertheless, how the above-mentioned attitude of questioning motherhood is limited by what the [...]