Year 2012 – Volume 4 – Issue 2

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Aslı YAZICI YAKIN   Anthropology Department, Ankara University Dates: 1 June 2012 Mystery or Deviance: Sexology Discourse in Turkey Between 1930-60 Between the years 1930-60, a series of books and magazines on sexual education were published that exclusively aimed at women in Turkey. Those texts, intended to teach women how to talk to men, how to discipline their bodies and minds, were fed from the situated reasoning which was being formed by aligned concepts such as nature-culture and body-mind and the popular sexology discourse which [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Çiğdem AKGÜL Ankara University, Women's Studies Dates: 1 June 2012 A consumed body and its becoming “Power”: “American Psycho” Capitalisim centers on bodies and sex, which are controlled by social, economic and politic mechanisms. This article is based on “Consumer Culture Theory” of Foucault, who claimed that body is a field which is studied, analyzed, categorized and constructed. Foucault rigorously questioned biology by questioning whether the bodies are natural or not. The article aims at analyzing this theory on one of the most radical [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ezgi SARITAŞ Ankara University, Political Science and Public Administration Dates: 1 June 2012 In this article I want to analyze the Sexology: Sexual Knowledge Magazine published between the years 1949-1954. With this analysis, I want to look at the ways different discourses on sexuality are articulated and authorized under the title of ‘sexual conduct’. Although an analysis that is focused exclusively on the magazine is not enough to understand the gender regime of the period in question, the content of the magazine will be [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Alev ÖZKAZANÇ Political Science and Public Administration, Ankara University Dates: 1 June 2012 A Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment: Jane Gallop As one of the well known feminist American proffesors of literature Jane Gallop wrote a book called “Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment” in 1997. The book was about her case as a feminist professor who was accused of sexual harassment by two of her female students. In her book she defends her case and she also explicity condemns the current university policies which [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Özkan AGTAŞ Ankara Üniversitesi, Political Science and Public Administration 0000-0001-8483-2805 Dates: 1 June 2012 A True Sex, Yoke of the Law and Political Subjectivity To subjugate sexual practices is probably one of the oldest obsessions of the law. Nevertheless, the purpose of the law was for centuries not to demand a true sex, but to ban some sexual behaviours on the basis of matrimonial relations. Rather than the law, it has been the norm that constructs homo sexuality as a space of truth and [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Bülent KORKMAZ   Yıldırım Bayezit University Arabic Language and Literature Dates: 1 June 2012 “A Cup of tea with Mrs. Robinson” by the Syrian writer Ghalia Kabbani This study is aimed at translating and presenting “A Cup of tea with Mrs. Robinson” by the Syrian writer Ghalia Kabbani. It is introduced with a brief presentation on her life and contributions to the Arab Literature. At the core of the study, a Turkish translation the story is presented. Ghalia Kabbani, short story, Middle East, diaspora, the [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Dilek KELEŞ Ankara University, Social Sciences Institute, Public Relations and Promotion Degree 0000-0003-1477-9951 Dates: 1 June 2012 It can be said that entrance of “place” to litearture as an area of study is one of the most important gains of postmodernism which came up in social sciences at the second half of the 20th century. At the same time, the fact that new definitions of geography and place have entered the social sciences supports thestudy of everyday life. This work focuses on the Republican [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Audrey KOBAYASHİ Dates: 1 June 2012 'Race' and Racism in the classroom: Loking back on anger This Forum takes seriously the proposition that everything we do as geographers is potentially ‘relevant’ to the affairs of the wider society. Using expanded conceptions of ‘pedagogy’ and ‘politics’, the Forum suggests why and how we are always engaged in processes of shaping and steering this wider society, wittingly or not, and intentionally or not. In the minds of many of us, this shaping and steering only or [...]