Year 2015 – Volume 7 – Issue 1

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Betül YARAR Gazi Üniversitesi, İletişim Fakültesi Dates: 1 June 2015 In this paper, policies that have been developed in respect to the problems of globalization of poverty and poverty of women are analysed with crtical eyes. It aims to reveal certain basic problems that micro politics and working programmes produced by supranational organizations i.e. World Bank, European Union, United Nations, etc. , carried out at the local level and executed mainly by local NGOs consist of. In this context, issues like NGOisation of struggle [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Canet T. SARITAŞ ELDEM Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyoloji Bölümü Dates: 1 June 2015 Unemployed young women cannot struggle equally for open positions in the labour market. On the one side, unemployed young woman seeks a job through the criteria determined in a way that it shall not constitute any challenge for the dominance of men, capital and state. On the other side, by his/her hiring and firing practices, employers reproduces both these criteria and state’s, men’s and capital’s interests consequent of these. Considering [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Burcu HATİBOĞLU EREN Hacettepe Üniversitesi İ.İ.B.F. Sosyal Hizmet Bölümü Dates: 1 June 2015 This feminist ethnographic research is aimed to find out the relations between the daily lives of women and social policy within the Aktaş neoliberal urbanization project in relation to poverty, participation and security. In this context, the experiences of women who are land owners and dependent on social aids are analysed regarding to gender roles and patriarchal relations. It is seen that women living in poverty defined the project as ‘impossibility’ [...]