Year 2023 – Volume 15 – Issue 2

First Language: English Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ebru Uğurel Özdemir Dates: 15 December 2023 Ancient Greek myths, as the architect of the patriarchal ideology, serve as a panorama of the reality, which women in all ages around the world face and are forced to experience. Based on the fossilized ideas of the archaic philosophy, the mythological narratives are at the center of a canon which reveals, internalizes and legitimates the binary oppositions between the sexes. Although myths are set in the past and thus seem to be bygone, the events and [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Hatice Çoban Keneş, Nihal Kocabay-Şener Dates: 15 December 2023 This study examines the process of Turkey withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention with two media organizations with different ideologies. It has been considered that these two media organizations can make visible the two different subject positions (opposition and support) that emerge in society. The news related to the Istanbul Convention published on the websites of Sabah and Sözcü between March 20, 2021, and July 1, 2021, have been collected and the news gathered 41 news [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Emel Coşkun Dates: 15 December 2023 This paper focuses on migrant women’s cross border marriages with local men and their position in these marriages under Turkey’s changing migration legislation in the last decades. Based on 39 indepth interviews with migrant women from Kyrgyzstan, public employees, lawyers, and İstanbul Kyrgyz consulate workers in the summer months of 2021 and 2022, this study points out the unequal position of migrant women in cross border marriages. The findings suggest that the increasing surveillance of the public authorities [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nalan Mumcu Dates: 15 December 2023 Women experience different facets of patriarchy and capitalism at various stages of their lives, at varying ages and in various historical periods. At different ages, they encounter different forms of domination and create different spaces for themselves. This article aims to rethink the social meaning of age with a focus on the experience of womanhood and labor, focusing on the youth narratives of 25 women workers whose life stories I listened to. As much as, or even more [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Aylin Çakıroğlu Çevik, Gülçin Con Wright Dates: 15 December 2023 The unequal share of house and care work among heterosexual couples has long been a question of feminist theoretical and empirical studies. These studies have primarily focused on the physical dimension rather than the mental dimension of unpaid labor to understand gender inequalities in the household. To our knowledge, there is yet to be a study on mental load in Turkey. To address this gap, we went beyond examining who performs the act and [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Aslı Şahankaya Adar, Saniye Dedeoğlu Dates: 15 December 2023 The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the impact of women's cooperatives on women's empowerment in Turkey. To achieve this goal, a mixed-method approach combining both quantitative and qualitative methods has been used. The study involved 235 women through surveys and 70 women through in-depth interviews from 27 women's entrepreneurial production and operation cooperatives. The research scope is limited to women's cooperatives in Turkey. There are two specific limitations of the research scope. [...]