Year 2014 – Volume 6 – Issue 2

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Gökçesu AKŞİT   Maltepe University, Lecturer Berfin VARIŞLI Maltepe University, Department of Sociology, Research Assistant Dates: 1 January 2014 This interview took place during 1st International Symposium on Men and Masculinities, which was held in İzmir, between 11th and 13th of September. Keynote speakers of the symposium were Professor Jeff Hearn Örebro University, Sweden; Hanken School of Economics, Finland; University of Huddersfield, UK , Professor Serpil Sancar Ankara University , and Dr Elijah Nealy Columbia University, USA . We took our cue from the idea [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Hatice KENEŞ ÇOBAN Tunceli Üniversitesi Fakültesi Dates: 1 January 2014 Based upon the assumption that racism and sexism are born out of the same structural conditions and that they support and strengthen each other in relation with the new directions in the discussions on racism and sexism, this article will focus on the new racism which is principally established within the language, which is reproduced through discourses and which is produced on multiple layers by articulating many discriminative ideologies we well as sexism as [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Sanam VAGHEFİ Dates: 1 January 2014 This paper aims to analyse everyday relations of Iranian women who migrated to Turkey with the state, the transformation of their perceptions of identity in relation to that and ways of resistance against social exclusion with a feminist perspective. The research was conducted between 2011 and 2013 in Ankara, Eskişehir and Çankırı through participatory observation and case study methods. All individuals who were interviewed within the scope of case study are women with Persian, Lur and Kurdish ethnic [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nihan BOZOK   Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü doktora öğrencisi Meral AKBAŞ   Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü doktora öğrencisi Dates: 1 January 2014 This paper is about Tezer Özlü’s novel “Cold Nights of Childhood” [Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri], a novel with biographical traces and a sensitivity to time. In this novel, written in the second half of 1970s, through writing, she delivers her past to her own present. In her text, she walks about in the past, which she constructed again today. She [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Manolya HARNUBOĞLU Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi, Yabancı Diller Eğitim-Öğretimi Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezi, Okutman Dates: 1 January 2014 Space and different perceptions of space: A study on Halide Edib Adıvar’s autobiography Mor Salkımlı Ev The concept of space is a long-lasting subject of debate. Among these debates, there are different definitions of space and different ways of perceiving the space itself. In this study, the concept of space and its differents perceptions in Halide Edib Adıvar’s autobiographical work Mor Salkımlı Ev are taken into consideration. [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ceren BAYKOTAN Sakarya University Department of International Relations Dates: 1 January 2014 Human trafficking has grown into a global issue especially after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Due to its geographical position and economic situation Turkey is both a destination and transit country for victims of human trafficking. Human trafficking mostly emanates from sexual exploitation of women in Turkey. In the study transnational sex trafficking of women in Turkey and Turkey’s counter trafficking policy is analyzed from a feminist perspective under three titles- [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Bilge ŞAHİN MPhil/PhD in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London Dates: 1 January 2014 International law is dominated by the reproduction of gendered structures originating in the masculine nature of law. In respect of rape in armed conflicts the prescribed roles of men and women and the respective experiences they make severely limit subtantial reconciliation. In armed conflicts, men are considered decision-makers and fighters whereas women are regularly regarded as victims. Hence, their respective roles and experiences in post-conflict societies have constrained effective [...]