Year 2018 – Volume 10 – Issue 2

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

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Tülay KAYA Dates: 1 January 2009 Social centers settlement houses are social reform institutions which were established in the 19th Century USA, in a period when the social, cultural and political turmoil caused by the industrial developments in the city life were tried to be comprehended and taken under control. The target group of these institutions that were actively run by women was the immigrants and the poor working class who were seen as the cause of problems encountered in the city life. For [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Alev ÖZKAZANÇ  Fevziye SAYILAN  Elif E AKŞİT Dates: 1 January 2009 Gender and Education: A Study on Female Students of Technical Vocational Schools This study aims to contextualize a project on the perspective and attitudes of vocational school students towars gendered profession choices conducted by the Women's Studies Center, Ankara University for a social responsibility project by Türk Traktör between November 2016 - June 2017. We aim to bring together the very weak historical and contemporary literature on girls' vocational education with this project to outline [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nüket PAKSOY ERBAYDAR Dates: 1 January 2009 Spatial Evaluation of Midwives’ Relationship to Health Centers in Socialized Health Services In historical perspective, midwifery has different breaking points in Turkey. In the Ottoman period and in the first years of the Republic, the tension between midwives and modern medicine was ended with liquidation of traditional midwifery. Afterwards, midwives' working places were shaped as maternity houses and hospitals with constitution of modern midwifery. The new tasks was given to midwives in health centers and health houses [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Raheleh BAHADOR  Leila HASHEMİ  Esmaeil ZOHDİ Dates: 1 January 2009 Eternal definitions imposed by tradition and ideology defines woman as the “Other” to man. Though it seems that postmodernity has broken the closed space of tradition and redefined the woman, not much has changed in the small and urban areas even in the first world countries. Family as the smallest unit in the society is the miniature of a bigger world that forms woman identity to enter a much bigger world. Social space influences the individual [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Muzaffer Derya NAZLIPINAR SUBAŞI Dates: 1 January 2009 Articulating The Unspeakable Female Body in Orlando Female experience and body has always been defined and ill-treated as deviant by the dominant patriarchal structure and its sexist language. It is the ‘dark continent’ full of indefinable things, like female sexuality and textuality that must be avoided. That is why, the expression of female desire has always been ignored and/or disguised in male texts. However, today is high time women, having been estranged from their bodies and [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Orkun KOCABIYIK Dates: 1 January 2009 Masculinity in Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch 1992 One of the most prominent writings on football and football fandom is Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch. Besides the topic of football, it is the author’s own story about growing up as a British child in the 1960s, an era which was shaped by issues of class and questions about the existence of British identity. As a semi-autobiographic coming-of-age narrative about love, friendship, labour, obsession for football, the luck and success of [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Özlem ŞENDENİZ Dates: 1 January 2009 The study would looked at the advertising campaigns on the two theme Listerine company, which intersect each other in the 1920’s and shape them todays. The first of these two themes is aimed at transforming the society into aconsumerist society and the second one is to examine how the gender roles used in society. In this context, the methods about antiseptic which was use in surgery room to predecessor the sector and system have been promoted as an [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Meral Salman YIKMIŞ Dates: 1 January 2009 Being Nonmother in a Pronatalist Culture This qualitative research tries to understand how the pronatalist cultural acceptances, which promote reproduction by locating the family within the centre of social life and conflating womanhood with motherhood, mould non-mother women’s relationship with their husbands/partners, family members, friends with children and with other people they meet in their everyday life. To find answers to this research question, I apply the data derived from the face-to-face interviews and e-interviews conducted with [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Yasemin GEZER TUĞRUL Dates: 1 January 2009 It can be said that motherhood, which is accepted as one of the most important turning points of a woman’s life, is given a sacred status by the patriarchal system and religious institution. This sacredness also has an important place in determining women’s position in society and motherhood role through gender roles. In recent years, among women who define themselves as religious, how women relate to society in terms of motherhood role, and how women understand ve [...]