Year 2015 – Volume 7 – Issue 2

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: İrem İNCEOĞLU Dates: 1 January 2009 This article aims to provoke a discussion on feminist cinema in Turkey. It scrutinises a recent film Mavi Dalga The Blue Wave 2013 in the way it represent women and the feminist cinema discourse. The narrative of mundane story of young women in a provincial setting refrains from the normative storylines that usually position women in binary profiles of femme fatale/innocent girl. It also skillfully escapes from the burden of narrating women as victims only. Considering these features, this [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Burcu ŞENEL Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Bilimleri Bölümü, Doktora Öğrencisi Dates: 1 January 2015 In this study, concentrating on participant observations I made in the dance group where I have been dancing for several years and in-depth interviews I conducted with four women dancers, I try to examine how women perceive their and the others’ bodies, what they feel about them, how these emotions work and affect the construction of their bodies. Within this context, first taking neoliberal subject as starting point, which is pointed both [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Hanife PEHLİVAN Ege Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi Dates: 1 January 2015 In this article, psychological services provided for women with psychological problems, who applied to get help from mental health center, is criticized from a feminist therapy perspective. This criticism is built on the analysis of Ayşe ’s story who was admitted to the psychiatry clinic and women counseling center, with intense psychological problems due to a history of multiple violence and. In this article, Ayşe's case was presented, after a brief introduction of the [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: İrem İNCEOĞLU Dates: 1 January 2015 This article aims to provoke a discussion on feminist cinema in Turkey. It scrutinises a recent film Mavi Dalga The Blue Wave 2013 in the way it represent women and the feminist cinema discourse. The narrative of mundane story of young women in a provincial setting refrains from the normative storylines that usually position women in binary profiles of femme fatale/innocent girl. It also skillfully escapes from the burden of narrating women as victims only. Considering these features, [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Merin SEVER Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü - Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Doktora Programı Öğrencisi Dates: 1 January 2015 Womanhood, Motherhood, Childfreeness: A Comparative Reading on Elisabeth Badinter’s The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women, Tina Miller’s Making Sense of Motherhood and Corinne Maier’s No Kid The notion of motherhood gains new meanings through modern changes while preserving its traditional references. It has, however, a content which categorizes women as “mothers vs. others” and it is oppressive not only to mothers but [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Özge Sanem Özateş GELMEZ Dates: 1 January 2015 In this study the women’s care work is evaluated via Family and Social Policy Ministry’s practice which is implemented in 2006 with aiming to be met needs of care for people living in economic deprivation and having severely disabled reports by relatives in their own homes by means of specific fee. With this study it was aimed to evaluate the experiences of care-giver women about care work and domestic work practice in the households who were [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Özden Melis ULUĞ Dates: 1 January 2015 The situation of women’s taking their husband surnames upon marriage is regulated by Article 187 of the Turkish Civil Code. This article plays a key role in reproducing hegemonic masculinity by providing the possibility of reconstructing the paternalistic system through men. Article 187 of the Turkish Civil Code legitimizes both the domination of men over women and existing gender roles by reproducing masculinity institutionally. Men who get married within the borders of heterosexual norms draw the lines [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ezgi BURGAN Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi Dates: 1 January 2015 This study focuses on the question of what is the function of science in the intersectionality between anthropocentrism and androcentrism through the practice of meat-eating. Whose interests are served and what kind of logic of domination is functioning in the socio-historical construction of this relation. This study addresses the question on the basis of Elizabeth Fiscer’s “carrier bag theory”. According to it, the first cultural material was not a big, long and hard object [...]

Birincil Dil: Türkçe Konu:  Kadın Araştırmaları Araştırma Bölümü: Araştırma Makaleleri Yazar/lar: İlknur HACISOFTAOĞLU   Gedik Üniversitesi Safter ELMAS Marmara Üniversitesi 0000-0002-8519-163X Tarih: 1 Aralık 2015 “The Master of Muscles”: Fitness Discourse in Men’s Health Magazine In this article, it is aimed to explore the discourses on construction of male body in men’s magazines in the case of Men’s Health Magazine. For that purpose, the section dedicated to the subject of fitness is analysed as this subject plays a central role in the discourse on formation of man's body. Therefore it is stated that in [...]