Year 2016 – Volume 8 – Issue 2

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Burcu ŞENTÜRK Ege Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dates: 1 January 2016 Women in Trouble: Transformation Of Marginal Women in Turkish Cinema From Sultan to Zeynep Macro changes since the 1940s resulted in fast transformation of urban and rural space. Gecekondu phenomenon, both represented a type of accomodation and sociological category emerged with this transformation and modified in due time. Women’s relation with the space and women labour changed with the start of chain migration from rural to urban areas. Gecekondu and the [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Eren YÜKSEL Ankara Üniversitesi, Fakültesi Dates: 1 January 2016 This study aims to consider movies shot in the 2000s, Teslimiyet Other Angels, Emre Yalgın, 2010 and Güneşi Gördüm I Saw the Sun, Mahsun Kırmızıgül, 2009 , within the context of socio-spatial representation of transgender identities. Considering ideas of gender and space theoreticians such as Henri Lefebvre, the study explores trans bodies’ relationships with dominant political power mechanisms in hegemonic space, what kind of exclusion, limitation and inclusion mechanisms they are framed with and whether [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Gülsüm DEPELİ Hacettepe Üniversitesi Fakültesi Dates: 1 January 2016 This essay focuses on the cinema adaptations of Pygmalion, which is written by Bernard Shaw, and the films following rouhly the same story line of Pygmalion. In the relevant films of Yeşilçam, i.e. Turkish cinema between 1960 and 1975, the film industry conceived the social tensions at that time in a dualistic view like rural-urban, east-west, poor-rich, modern-traditional, and figured them out in a melodramatic way of filmic narration. In this view, countless films have [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Selma KOZAK   Araştırma görevlisi, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi Grafik Bölümü Dates: 1 January 2016 In this article is tried to explan Sheila Levrant de Breteville who participated in feminist art movement in 1970s and one of the founders of Woman's Building, reflections to graphic design, creative and professional lifes of women, art circles and society of artistic activities in this here associated with appearance of second-wave women's movement and regain to strenght of feminism. Moreover, In this study is mentioned in detail [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Seçil DEREN Akdeniz Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi 0000-0002-8939-0142 Sibel HOŞTUT   Akdeniz Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Dates: 1 January 2016 This study aims to analyse gender-based discrimination in the field of corporate communications management by means of a critical analysis on the profiles of the professionals in Turkey. The practice of both public relations and corporate communications monitor and maintain an organization’s communication processes with its publics. Public relations as a profession emerged in early 20th century and the feminization in the field attracted attention by 1970s. [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Görkem AKGÖZ   Hacettepe Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü Dates: 1 January 2016 At a time when neoliberal feminism has been receiving increasing attention as a field of research, the debates over the historical dynamics of neoliberalism’s use of feminist demands and discourses are heating up. In this article, we will look at the arguments on the changes of the demands, forms of organization and anti-systemic character of feminist struggle. Having received a good amount of reaction from the feminists, these discussions are both politically and theoretically [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Raşit ÇELİK   Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Eğitim Bilimleri Fakültesi Dates: 1 January 2016 A Feminist Approach towards Ethics of Care and Philosophy of Education Care ethics, which still continues to develop, appears to be an important approach in contemporary moral philosophy. Such approach takes its roots from the feminist movements occurred in the second half of the twentieth century. Similar to the progress of the feminist movements, care ethics movement has considerably extended its influence over different fields in the past years, including the field [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Lülüfer KÖRÜKMEZ   Ege Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Sosyoloji Bölümü Dates: 1 January 2016 Recently, effects of positionality of the researcher in fieldwork on data gathering, interpretation and writing have started to gain attention from academics in Turkey. Although the positionality of the researcher is defined by variety of factors such as age, gender and class, this article only focuses on one of them, that is gender. It concerns the implications of gender relations in the field on knowledge production process of female researchers. The discussion [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Leyla Bektaş ATA   İstanbul Şişli Meslek Yüksekokulu, Öğretim Görevlisi; Hacettepe Üniversitesi İletişim Bilimleri Doktora Programı, Doktora Öğrencisi Dates: 1 January 2016 An Attempt for an Auto-Ethnography: Living in a Gated Community I analyze the conversion effect of the living-space on everyday life by living for approximately three months in a gated community in this study. As a person who would walk to many places when I lived in the center of Istanbul; with the help of the literature of urban studies and the facilities [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Atilla BARUTÇU   Araştırma Görevlisi, Bülent Ecevit Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Bölümü Naz HIDIR   Doktora Öğrencisi, Ankara Üniversitesi Gazetecilik Anabilim Dalı Dates: 1 January 2016 Changing Roles of Fatherhood in Turkey: Pro Feminist Fathers This paper aims to reveal how pro feminist fathers construct their fatherhood during the process of construction of their masculinity in Turkey. It also tries to find out the impact of the roles of these fathers on socialization process of their children about gender equality. In Turkey, it is possible to talk about [...]