Year 2018 – Volume 10 – Issue 1

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Sibel ERDOĞAN Dates: 1 January 2009 ... ... Sibel ERDOĞAN Dergipark Full Text

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nihan BOZOK Dates: 1 January 2009 This article presents that while the history of modern medicine was being written down and modern medical knowledge was being produced, women’s medication knowledge was excluded from all these processes, it was subordinated, and ignored. According to the argument of this paper, while modern medicine is shaped around the principles of objectivity, provability, rationality, and progression, women’s treatment knowledge, botanical knowledge and care knowledge, accumulated by them through oral traditions and apprenticeship since ancient days, had not been [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Josephine SHABANİ  Gemma TODD Dates: 1 January 2009 Much discussion has been raised worldwide on Female Genital Mutilation and/or Cutting FGM/C , however, there is a need to understand the impact of FGM/C for girls and women. This paper focuses on the practice, and experiences, of FGM/C in Tanzania. This paper uses Tanzania’s 2016 Demographic and Health Survey to analyse two key objectives: 1 who is at risk of FGM and potentially why; and 2 what are the future outcomes if one conducts FGM: what [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nüket PAKSOY ERBAYDAR  Aysun BALSEVEN ODABAŞI Dates: 1 January 2009 Article 132 of the Turkish Civil Code does not give any restriction for the male if the marriage is final, but does not allow women for marriage within 300 days after the end of marriage. If a woman wants to marry someone other than her divorced husband during this duration called as “waiting period ", she can get a marriage permit by proving that she is not medically pregnant by applying to the court. Waiting period [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Gamze Yıldız ŞEREN KURULAR Dates: 1 January 2009 Women incurring with an ongoing pressure under the gender stereotypes and struggle for womens rights has been taking centuries. the products of these efforts have begun to be taken, even if it is late. Gender Sensitive Budgeting which first implemented in Austria in the 1990s, is an output of these challenges in the 20th century. Understanding that public spending does not equally affect women and men, particularly childcare obligations and household division of labor shows that [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Fatma Armağan TEKE LLOYD Dates: 1 January 2009 In the migration literature, there has been a shift of interest from studying exclusionary policies of states that result in the criminalization of ‘illegal’ migrants towards more subtle forms of incorporation. In this paper, I will examine such as migration regime imposed upon illegal Armenian migrant care workers, which is characterized by the conditional acceptance of illegality rather than by strict punishments and deportation. Within this context, Armenian migrant care workers are caught in a legal limbo [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: İlknur MEŞE Dates: 1 January 2009 Feminist pedagogy aims to liberate oppressed women’s voices and to change the world. For this purpose, it establishes an organic relationship between the classroom and the outer world as well as between pedagogy and social change. This is more than raising students' awareness on gender equality; thus it is a ‘political standpoint’. Another important characteristic of feminist pedagogy is that its practices and aims are not a ‘handy set of instructional techniques’ to be applied in the same way [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Duygu ALTINOLUK Dates: 1 January 2009 Femininity and masculinity are the outcomes of a social reproduction rather than a biological one. It is possible to see the traces of this social reproduction in issues as to the positioning of the woman in the social life, working life, and domestic labor. The structure that works against the woman with regard to the domestic division of labor, also affects the working life of the woman, in this context, the gender- based pressures experienced by women in the academia [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Seçil DEREN Dates: 1 January 2009 This study examines discussion of Özgecan Aslan murder by deputies in parliamentary sessions. Many research link the murder of Özgecan Aslan and, more generally, violence against women to the conservative and male dominated mentality that the AK Party politicians encourage by their public speeches. The speeches of the politicians of all four parties in the parliament are examined to seek traces of conservative and male dominated discourse. In doing so, content analysis with a mixed method, i.e. quantitative and [...]