Year 2012 – Volume 4 – Issue 1

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Pınar Melis Yelsalı PARMAKSIZ Dates: 1 January 2012 Blogosphere, Mamasphere, Mommyblog, Motherhood Pınar Melis Yelsalı PARMAKSIZ Dergipark Full Text

Birincil Dil: Türkçe Konu:  Kadın Araştırmaları Araştırma Bölümü: Araştırma Makaleleri Yazar/lar: İrem İNCEOĞLU Middlesex University, Media Department Tarih: 1 Ocak 2012 This article aims to review the developing literature, which is rarely translated into Turkish, on feminist involvement in alternative globalisation movements. It also reflects the author’s personal analysis based on observations during participation to various social movement activism platforms in Europe. The article discusses the historical aspect of international women’s movement; origins of alternative globalisation movements; the obstacles that are faced by women’s movements during the attempts to actively take part in [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: M Tuğba KAYA Ankara University Faculty Doctorate Dates: 1 January 2012 What is the change in the lives of women in Dikmen shanty settlement area dependent upon? In Ankara, Upper Dikmen, there is a shanty settlement area surrounded by shopping malls and plazas to meet the needs of upper-middle class elites. A multi-front war is being fought between those who want to seize it through "all kinds of methods" to make use of the great revenue yielding potential of the area, and residents who [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Leyla USLU Ankara University, Radio Television Cinema Doktoral Student Dates: 1 January 2012 This survey focuses on how women relate themselves to their homes. The universe is 25-35 years old unmarried women who study or work but live with their parental families. The survey presupposes that women indeed do want to go away from home. Nevertheless, it is understood that they don’t or can’t, even if they have economic independence. In response to questions formulated with the intention of probing into aforementioned inability, eight [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Selda TUNCER ODTÜ, Sociology Department Dates: 1 January 2012 In this paper, I will attempt to examine the interaction between feminism and geograph and reveal women’s struggles to take part in the discipline of human geography. Considering mostly two largest literatures from Britain and United States , I will focus on how feminist scholars have influenced and shaped the discipline of human geography through new theoretical and methodological approaches. For that purpose, I will look at mainly the works of certain feminist geographers discussing [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Hatice Şule OĞUZ Hacettepe University Dates: 1 January 2012 In this article, I aim to narrate the dilemmas that I experienced as a feminist female researcher in the field research of my PhD thesis in the name of “Forced Migration as an Intercultural Encounting Situation: The Foreign Perception of the Local; Example of Asylum Seekers in Turkey”. In my field research that I carried out in Gaziantep between July – December 2011, I tried to understand not only my research questions but also how [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Bülent KORKMAZ Okutman, Arapça Bölümü, Yıldırım Beyazıt University Dates: 1 January 2012 The Women's hammam by the Syrian Writer Ulfat al-Idlibi This study is aimed at translating and examining the Womens Bath story by Syrian short story wrighter Ulfat al-Idlibi. It is introduced with a brief presentation on her life and contributions to the Arab Literature. At the hardcore of the study, a Turkish translation the Womens Bath story by Ulfat al-Idlibi is presented. Finally, the story by Ulfat al-Idlibi is briefly discussed in [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nermin ÖZTÜRK Philosophy and Religious Sciences, Konya University Dates: 1 January 2012 The Woman Who Has Affected the Mediterranean Countries at the Early Years of Christianity: Tekla Tekla, born in Iconium and died in Seleucia, is one of the important female personalities of the early Christian era. She meets Christianity during Pavlus’ first trip on a mission to Iconium and becomes his pupil. She plays an active role in founding of the Chrtistian church among the apostles. She performs sacraments such as the authority [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: İlknur MEŞE Dates: 1 January 2012 Two Fictional Texts, Autobiography and History: The Case of Afet İnan Afet İnan has not only served in founding new history concept of Republic period and designating woman identity as an ideologist/missionary, but has been a Republic intellectual/woman via these things which helped her develop as well. İnan interpreted the tasks given during history studies, which she stated to begin with the directive of Atatürk, as a “national duty” to be resulted in success. Afet İnan indicated in [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Gül YAŞARTÜRK Akdeniz University, Communication Faculty Dates: 1 January 2012 According to a research conducted by the Turkish Republic Prime Ministry Directorate General on the Status of Women in 2008, the most common type of violence encountered by women is violence inflicted on them by men with whom they have a romantic relationship. According to the same research, the violence committed by their lovers or spouses is more common than the risk of harassment or rape by an unknown person or an acquaintance. In [...]