Year 2022 – Volume 14 – Issue 1

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nehir GÜNDOĞDU Dates: 10 June 2022 This study presents the methodological discussion of the fieldwork of the project named “’Being educated is a distant dream to us’ Dom and Abdal Children’s Education in Turkey: The cases of Antep and Urfa”. Focusing on the processes that make it difficult and easier to reach the participants in the field, this study analyses the situations that play a role in the insider/outsider positioning of the researcher in the interviews held with a “fluid” method. While the power relations [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors:  Asuman ÖZGÜR KEYSAN, Pınar KAYGAN, Harun KAYGAN Dates: 10 June 2022 Beyond the activity of carrying passengers from one point to another, transportation is an area, cut by social categories such as gender, class, age and disability, shaped by government policies and dominated by social codes. This study concentrates on the public transportation experiences of domestic workers, emphasizing that it is inevitable to approach transportation from a gender lens. Basically, this research focuses on the meanings attributed to public transport by women domestic workers, [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: İrem KAVASOĞLU, Mehmet BOZOK Dates: 10 June 2022 This research aims to discuss the experiences of the athletes in the field of football who are not compatible with the normalized body in women’s football in Turkey, with Foucault's conceptual tools. We focused on football as a research field since it is one of the fields where gender inequality in sport is most visible. In this manner, women’s football idealizes cis-heteronormative femininity. We collected the data of this research, using qualitative research design, through in-depth [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Elifhan KÖSE Dates: 10 June 2022 Hidayet literature was a genre that emerged for the first time in the 1970s in Turkey with Islamism becoming visible in the public sphere. This genre not only provided a life/body guideline for urbanizing Islamism, but also offered popular literal products to allow others defined as western/modern to have contact with the Muslim world. Although Hidayet novels have lost their old influence nowadays, they continue to have a similar popular effect with new writers reviving ‘Islamist romanticism’. Pious female [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nihan BOZOK, Nur KÜÇÜKDOĞAN Dates: 10 June 2022 This article makes a feminist discussion about the life experiences and emotional worlds of fat women. The data discussed in the article is based on a field study conducted with a qualitative method. Within the scope of the research, in-depth interviews were conducted with twenty fat young women. In the study, the life stories of women shaped by being fat are investigated. The article is theoretically grounded on feminist body politics literature. This literature, especially since 1970’s, [...]

First Language: English Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: F. Güzin AĞCA-VAROĞLU,  Berrin ÇOBAN, Melek BİNGÖL,  Zeynep KARAKURT,  Gülbahar KILIÇ, Nazime KAPLANER, Sümeyya ZENGİN   Dates: 10 June 2022 This article consists of autoethnographic texts written by six young women from Eastern and Southeastern Turkey, studying Sociology at Harran University and was edited and supervised by Dr. F. Güzin Ağca-Varoğlu. The contributions are reflections in their lived spaces after March 16, 2020. The students became involved as social scientists in their communities, and at the same time, experienced the liminal status of being members of [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Hikmet Çağrı YARDIMCI, Büşra ÖZTEKİN Dates: 10 June 2022 This study examines home-based work in the informal field, which is an intense working form of women, in the light of critical feminist theoretical and methodological discussions, through women who break pistachios, which would set the context for local working conditions. Within this framework, reflections of the informal sector on the labor markets both in the world and in Turkey are briefly introduced in conceptual and historical themes. Later, labor-capital contradictions in the informal sector [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Emine ERDOĞAN Dates: 10 June 2022 In this autoetnographic study, by focusing on the mood of my employment, I will try to examine how I manufacture consent to work as an academician at a university in the Eastern Black Sea in Turkey. While showing how my working life is shaped by the mood of the “young republican woman” image and also how it contradicts with, this article emphasises that the mood of working life cannot be understood without focusing on its relation with gender ideology. [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ünsal ÇİMEN Dates: 10 June 2022 Lucian of Samosata was a satirist and rhetorician who lived in the second century BC. He was the author of the earliest known science fiction novel, A True Story. In this story, Lucian travels to the Moon, joining the war between the moon people and the solar people. What makes this story interesting is that Lucian tells us there are no women among moon people, and men give birth to children. As stated rightly by Morena Deriu, this situation [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Haktan KALIR Dates: 10 June 2022 There are theses on Plato's pro-feminism or egalitarian signs that there was an example of women's emancipation in the Republic in the opposite of the traditions of Ancient Greece with the inclusion of women in the protective class. However, Plato is the same one who adds a position for women below the man and even between human and animal from his Meno to his Laws. This research will examine whether Plato thinks about the survival of the state [...]