Year 2017 – Volume 9 – Issue 2

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Linn Egeberg HOLMGREN Department of Social Work, Stokholm Üniversitesi, Stokholm, İsveç ve Department of Sociology, Lund Üniversitesi, Lund, İsveç Jeff HEARN   Centre for Feminist Social Studies, Örebro Üniversitesi, İsveç; Huddersfield Üniversitesi, Birleşik Krallık ve Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finlandiya Gökçesu AKŞİT   Maltepe Üniversitesi Berfin VARIŞLI   Maltepe Üniversitesi Dates: 1 June 2017 Framing “men in and out of feminism” This article addresses some aspects of the “Man Question” in feminism, by way of the analysis of men’s diverse gender-conscious positionings in relation to gender, [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: C Akça ATAÇ   Çankaya Üniversitesi, Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Dates: 1 June 2017 This study seeks to partake in the female-president debates through the overlapping of the feminist history of the Second Wave and the creation of Wonder Woman, which was presented first as the ideal prototype for a female president. In doing that it will elaborate on the affinity between the turth, which is the super power of Wonder Woman, and the feminist politics with a particular reference on [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nilgün DALKESEN İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi Dates: 1 June 2017 Abū Sa’īd died in 1335, and having no successor, political and social instability developed. The amīrs who aimed to gain control of the Ilkhānid crown competed with each other by crowning the non- Ilkhānid Chinggisid princes as puppet Khans. In such an environment, some Ilkhānid women, mainly Abū Sa’īd’s sister Sati Beg as the real representatives of the Ilkhān, had an impact on political and military struggles; sometimes, they even directed those developments. Although many [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: D Burcu EĞİLMEZ independent Researcher Dates: 1 June 2017 In this paper I investigate whether a thematic analysis of twenty-seven classical Karagöz Black Eye texts—an important representative of traditional Ottoman-Turkish drama—can provide us with the clues toward a better understanding of marriage, family and gender relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth century Ottoman İstanbul. In this respect, I discuss the following ideas as the prevailing themes of the plays: woman being an “imperfect man,” the burden of morality falling particularly on the shoulders [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Beril UĞUZ Doktora Öğrencisi, Ankara Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Anabilim Dalı Dates: 1 June 2017 In this study, the relationship between civil society organization CSO , state and feminism; has been addressed within the framework of the “governance feminism” concept. In terms of feminist NGOs, the usefulness of the “governance feminism strategy” to feminist policy has been discussed in terms of opportunities and risks, and the concepts of globalization, gender mainstreaming and femocratic governance have been utilized in clarifying this concept. In order to discuss potential [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nisan KUYUCU Doktora öğrencisi, Ankara Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Kamu Hukuku bölümü Dates: 1 June 2017 The European Convention on Human Rights ECHR does not contain the term human trafficking in its text. The term has been included to Article 4 of the ECHR for the first time in 2010, through the Rantsev decision of the European Court of Human Rights ECtHR . The fact that all the applications regarding human trafficking submitted by women reveals the relationship between human trafficking and gender. Due to [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Raşit ÇELİK   Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi, Eğitim Bilimleri Dates: 1 June 2017 Inclusiveness is an important concept in the discussions concerning social justice. The idea of an inclusive society has a central place in these discussions. An inclusive education without excluding anyone based on phsical feautes, gender or any other reasons is considered a powerful instrument in achieving an inclusive society. In this study, the concepts of inclusiveness and inclusive education are examined based on the theory of justice as fairness and capabilities approach. Then [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Hazal ATAY   NSPIRE Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow ve Paris Siyaset Bilimi Enstitüsü'nde Karşılaştırmalı Siyaset doktora öğrencisi Dates: 1 June 2017 Archeology of the Abortion Law in Turkey: Abortion Regulations, their Gains, Constrains and Contestations Abortion laws have long been at the center of debates over abortion. This article aims to dive into the abortion laws that came into effect from late Ottoman period to nowadays Turkey, to examine constitutive paradigms of abortion regulations. In this regard, the article illustrates how the current abortion regime in [...]