Year 2015 – Volume 7 – Issue 1

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ümüt AKAGÜNDÜZ   Ankara Üniversitesi, Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi Dates: 1 January 2015 The Political Atmosphere in Turkey and Reflections of the Woman’s Movement in the Journals of the Early Republican Period Magazines which have very powerful situation on intellectual life influence frequently human perspective and thanks to the magazines we can find out a lot of knowledge about politics, diplomacy, art, economy, society, science and technology. Magazines and their impacts on society and politics have been one area of concern for historians, sociologists,scholars and anthropologists. [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: İlknur MEŞE Giresun Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü Dates: 1 June 2015 Fashion and veiling: What kind of togetherness? The case of an Islamic fashion magazine In the process leading from victimization to power, the veil constructed by attributing politics, ideological, and cultural meanings and prestige has become an object of fashion and consumption thanks to the development of an Islamic consumer market during the 2000’s. In this article, the first seventeen issues of the Islamic fashion magazine Aysha between January 2013 and May 2014 will [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Atilla BARUTÇU Bülent Ecevit Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü Dates: 1 June 2015 A strategy of masculinity: Masculine reticence in private sphere In recent years, critical studies of men and masculinities give a chance to examine masculinity in all areas and provide to explore the different relationalities. This article focuses on the relationship between men and home. It first assumed that men probably uses reticence as a tool to position themselves at home, a place that is attributed to women, and to stay stronger as they [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Şahinde YAVUZ Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Fakültesi Dates: 1 June 2015 Women’s role in the production of patriarchal values of masculinity The existence of women have largely been negleted throughout the development of the studies on men and masculinity. Women give as much consent to the continuation of patriarchal power relations as men. As girl friends, sexual partners, schoolmates, colleagues etc., women play a central role in the construction of masculinity. Therefore it is necessary to have a closer look at the practices of women [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Sohila FAGHFORİ Department of English Literature, faculty of humanities,Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Kerman, Iran. Dates: 1 June 2015 This paper presents a feminist reading of Orhan Pamuk’s prize winner novel, My Name is Red. Feminism is a common approach applied to the study of literary works. It always reveals new things to be discovered about women’s essence and their place in the world. The study of women’s history indicates their ceaseless suffering and oppression caused by male gender throughout the centuries. Since old times, [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Meral Salman YIKMIŞ Aksaray Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü Dates: 1 June 2015 Conducting interviews with women In terms of the relationship between gender and language, this paper aims at questioning a methodological issue on speech used by women while conducting interviews with them. With this aim, firstly I refer to some approaches which study gender and language from different perspectives such as dominance, difference and performance. Then, arguing that gender is not a static but a relational category and its relationship with language is positional [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: İçten KESKİN Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, Siyaset Bilimi Ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü Dates: 1 June 2015 Abortion debate and feminism Abortion debate includes a variety of arguments on whether abortion is accepteble or permitable and it has been dominated by rights based arguments. The debate generally focuses on the beginning of right to live and the limits of right of autonomy. These generally accepted argument has been challenged by some feminists, and the question of on which base feminism should defend the access to abortion [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ayça KURTOĞLU ODTÜ, Kadın Çalışmaları Dates: 1 June 2015 A short story about march 8, the International Women's Day This commentary is a story about the background of the International Women’s Day. Based on the arguments that social movements challenging formal history writing have their own “formal histories” centring either the place or perspective from which the history of an event like 8 March International Women’s Day is written, and that the International Women’s Day is not infrequently used by the market and/or politics [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nisan KUYUCU Ankara Üniversitesi, Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Kamu Yönetimi Dates: 1 June 2015 Violence against women as gender discrimination in jurisprudence Violence against women is being described as a type of gender discrimination in international law. Till March 2014 only in 15 of cases before ECtHR on violence against women, the applicants adduced prohibition of discrimination. This shows the connection made by international law between violence against women and gender discrimination has not had any effect on the ECtHR case-law. Besides, [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Çiğdem YALÇIN Ankara Üniversitesi, Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Kadın Çalışmaları Yüksek Lisans Öğrencisi Dates: 1 June 2015 Immigrant women working in domestic services in Turkey and economic violence A group of women had to leave their countries and migrate to Turkey recently due to the global destructive effects of neoliberal policies. We aim at investigating the issue of ‘economic violence’ these women have been subjected to. This migration is due to the devaluation of female labor force, it is becoming a reserve labor, the impossibility [...]