Year 2021 – Volume 13 – Issue 2

Year 2021 – Volume 13 – Issue 2

Cyborgs, Companion Species and “Other Places”: The Alchemy in Haraway’s Speculative Fabulation

2022-08-10T22:12:18+03:00

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ece ÖZTAN (Sorumlu Yazar) Bir kuruma bağlı değildir Dates: 15 January 2021 Haraway's quest for "another place" is a rich ground to "go home" and become distant from "closed" space. This article seeks to track the path to pursuit of post-human and post-gender subject in feminist and utopian visions. From the Cyborg Manifesto to Chutulecene, Haraway’s figures and notions are being examined regarding the imagination of “a good life” in the midst of the pandemic. In this context, the article reviews Haraway's framework for defining [...]

Cyborgs, Companion Species and “Other Places”: The Alchemy in Haraway’s Speculative Fabulation2022-08-10T22:12:18+03:00

Working in the Field with Sensitive Groups: Meeting Experiences with the Mothers of the Martyrs

2022-08-10T22:08:33+03:00

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Esra GEDİK YOZGAT BOZOK ÜNİVERSİTESİ 0000-0003-3192-2107 Dates: 15 January 2021 In this study, I aim to show how to conduct field research with sensitive groups as a female researcher in the light of the problems I encountered during the field study and the experiences I gained during and after my research. For this purpose, I gathered and analyzed my experiences with "Marty mothers" that I interviewed for my master thesis research under different headings. As a result of this analysis, I tried to prove [...]

Working in the Field with Sensitive Groups: Meeting Experiences with the Mothers of the Martyrs2022-08-10T22:08:33+03:00

Iranian Refugees in the Context of Liquid Fragilities: Labour and Gender

2022-08-10T22:05:08+03:00

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Aslican KALFA TOPATEŞ (Sorumlu Yazar) PAMUKKALE ÜNİVERSİTESİ Dates: 15 January 2021 The global age we live in generates multi-layered migration processes and asylum seeking takes its place in the world’s agenda. Various disadvantages created by late capitalism, which is woven with risks and has fluid characteristics, affect refugees, especially women and LGBTI individuals, more deeply. New communities formed by the global context of migration transform their subjectivity by penetrating into individuals’ personal experiences in working and daily life. Based on the aforementioned realities, this research [...]

Iranian Refugees in the Context of Liquid Fragilities: Labour and Gender2022-08-10T22:05:08+03:00

Securing a Future with Social Capital: The Case of Syrian Refugee Women Working in Non-governmental Organizations-Refugees (NGO-Rs) in Turkey

2022-08-10T22:00:52+03:00

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Cansu AYDIN (Sorumlu Yazar) Bir kuruma bağlı değildir 0000-0002-5738-1591 Dates: 15 January 2021 Aiming at shedding a light on refugee women’s experiences with social capital, this article tries to answer the following questions: whether and how do Syrian refugee women utilize different forms of social capital to find jobs in NGO-Rs in Turkey? Investigating the role of bonding, bridging, and linking social capital, a qualitative methods study was conducted with Syrian refugee women that work at NGO-Rs in Turkey. The data analyzed was generated by [...]

Securing a Future with Social Capital: The Case of Syrian Refugee Women Working in Non-governmental Organizations-Refugees (NGO-Rs) in Turkey2022-08-10T22:00:52+03:00

Hareem or Haraam? Clamps of Women’s Spatial Freedom

2022-08-10T21:55:51+03:00

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Güldane MİRİOĞLU (Sorumlu Yazar) BALIKESİR ÜNİVERSİTESİ 0000-0003-3191-5935 Dates: 15 January 2021 This study aims to understand the intersectionality of multidimensional components that construct gender-based spatial boundaries. In this study, the intersectionality of society, body, space and time is examined in the example of one women-only cafe in Balıkesir. The study is a qualitative study and focus group discussion, based on a semi structured interview form, was conducted. Focus group discussion conducted by researcher/author with three women who the first owner of the Cafe (W1), her [...]

Hareem or Haraam? Clamps of Women’s Spatial Freedom2022-08-10T21:55:51+03:00

Observing “Socio-Cultural Turn” in Public Relations and Publics through Campaigns: An Analysis on #KıyafetimeKarışma

2022-08-10T21:50:06+03:00

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ebru AKÇAY (Sorumlu Yazar) ONDOKUZ MAYIS ÜNİVERSİTESİ 0000-0002-4792-9680 Dates: 15 January 2021 “Socio-cultural turn” in public relations refers to a theoretical and methodological shift from the managerial approach to public relations. The perspective of socio-cultural turn puts forward that public relations is a societal practice and suggests public relations to be conceptualized as “a locus of transactions” in which meanings are produced. Based on this approach, the study aims to analyze the transformation that public relations has undergone through publics’ participation in public relations campaigns. [...]

Observing “Socio-Cultural Turn” in Public Relations and Publics through Campaigns: An Analysis on #KıyafetimeKarışma2022-08-10T21:50:06+03:00

Self Silencing in Women: The Role of Environment, Motherhood Experience, Education, and Relationship Status

2022-08-10T21:45:07+03:00

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Meva DEMİR KAYA (Sorumlu Yazar) Atatürk Üniversitesi Figen ÇOK BAŞKENT ÜNİVERSİTESİ Dates: 15 January 2021 Women sometimes silence themselves by keeping wishes, needs and expectations of others more than their own to avoid any conflict and to secure themselves in their intimate relationships. The relational process may be accompanied by feelings and cognitions of women and environmental factors. The purpose of this study is to examine young women’s self silencing among women living in two different cities in terms of motherhood experience, education level, and [...]

Self Silencing in Women: The Role of Environment, Motherhood Experience, Education, and Relationship Status2022-08-10T21:45:07+03:00

Queer Narrative Strategies in Pinar Kür’s Detective Trilogy

2022-08-10T21:40:54+03:00

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Merve Esra ÖZGÜRBÜZ (Sorumlu Yazar) KARADENİZ TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ, EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ, TÜRK DİLİ VE EDEBİYATI BÖLÜMÜ 0000-0002-0616-5071 Dates: 15 January 2021 The classic detective fiction, which has turned into an element of oppression with its masculine and absolute structure, allows the genre to be queer by creating cliché types in literary ways and normalizing them. Pınar Kür is one of the writers who has struggled with the logic of insufficiency that the patriarchal system attributes to the differences of gender and sexual orientation. In her detective [...]

Queer Narrative Strategies in Pinar Kür’s Detective Trilogy2022-08-10T21:40:54+03:00

Rock, Iced City Model and Home: Selma’s Ankara Ankara Novel Analysis Through Walter Benjamin

2022-08-10T21:36:15+03:00

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Fikriye YÜCESOY (Sorumlu Yazar) MIMAR SINAN FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY, INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, GENERAL SOCIOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY (MASTER) (WITH THESIS) 0000-0002-8459-8913 Dates: 15 January 2021 In Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu's novel Ankara (1934), the turbulent periods of social life, starting from the years of the War of Independence and extending to the foundation of the Republic and afterwards, are narrated in the axis of a female hero. Together with Selma, the protagonist of the novel, we read the changes in social life through objects, images, moods [...]

Rock, Iced City Model and Home: Selma’s Ankara Ankara Novel Analysis Through Walter Benjamin2022-08-10T21:36:15+03:00

Securing a Future with Social Capital: The Case of Syrian Refugee Women Working in Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Turkey

2022-08-05T16:25:30+03:00

Birincil Dil: Türkçe Konu:  Kadın Araştırmaları Araştırma Bölümü: Araştırma Makaleleri Yazar/lar: Cansu AYDIN  (Primary Author) 0000-0002-5738-1591 Türkiye Tarih:  Aiming at shedding a light on refugee women’s experiences with social capital, this article tries to answer the following questions: whether and how do Syrian refugee women utilize different forms of social capital to find jobs in NGO-Rs in Turkey? Investigating the role of bonding, bridging, and linking social capital, a qualitative methods study was conducted with Syrian refugee women that work at NGO-Rs in Turkey. The data analyzed was generated by thematic analysis of semi-structured [...]

Securing a Future with Social Capital: The Case of Syrian Refugee Women Working in Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Turkey2022-08-05T16:25:30+03:00
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