Year 2024 – Volume 16 – Issue 1

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Elif Gençkal Eroler  Dates: 25 December 2024 This study focuses on gender policies of Turkey, an EU candidate country, during the coronavirus pandemic. and examines the feminist movement as an epistemic struggle against the epistemic injustice created by male-dominated knowledge production. This struggle can be considered as an epistemic struggle to the extent that it includes a critique of the conservative patriarchy’s hierarchical perspective that prioritizes men over women and criticizes the “normals” constructed by the male-dominated perspective that relegate women to a secondary position. [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Book Review Authors: Benan Havva Baran Dates: 30 May 2024 Critical masculinity studies associated with migration studies follow feminist critiques and emphasize that men's experiences of migration, forced migration and displacement are gendered. This review assesses how Saeid Mozafari and Halime Ünal Reşitoğlu discuss the experiences of masculinity among married Syrian men in Ankara, shaped in the grip of poverty, war and forced migration. It discusses the uniqueness of the work within the research conducted in Turkey, especially on the Syrian diaspora, and its contribution to [...]

First Language: English Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Emine Şentürk Dates: 30 May 2024 This essay critically examines the transformation of the protagonist, Ruth Patchett, in Fay Weldon’s novel The Life and Loves of a She Devil (1983). The transformation that Ruth undergoes can be viewed in two ways: both in terms of her role in society and her physical appearance. Initially a submissive housewife, Ruth evolves into an independent businesswoman who undergoes extensive cosmetic procedures to conform to prevailing beauty standards. This article reveals, through an analysis of Ruth’s liberation [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nergizhan Anaç, Volkan Arslan Dates: 30 May 2024 The impact of a multi-gender workforce is significant for the economic development of countries. Therefore, regarding the constant development of technology, it is essential to question the concepts of professions in which women are employed considering the roles given to women by old ideas coming from patriarchy, and to reconstruct and regulate them in the eyes of society. Today, some professions are still identified as male professions due to generalized gender roles which were constructed [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Demet Bolat Dates: 30 May 2024 In this article, I engage in an epistemological debate on anti-genderism rising since the 2010s. Firstly, I discuss how anti-genderism appropriates the standpoint epistemologies as a means to assert masculinist truth claims. Throughout this discussion, I demonstrate how post-truth technologies offer a methodology for masculinist truth claims. Subsequently, I embark on an inquiry into the development of a feminist re-appropriation strategy, aimed at strengthening feminist truth claims and reclaiming standpoint epistemologies in response to epistemic crisis engendered by the [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Damla Göre Dates: 30 May 2024 The Ottoman women's periodicals played a pivotal role as a conduit for the women's movement while also offering insightful articles on house decoration. These articles discussed house artifacts, furniture, and ornaments, all the while highlighting the importance of tiny touches. Published during the early Republic period, Süs Magazine (1923–24) covered home aesthetics like its predecessors and launched an intriguing decoration campaign for women readers using do-it-yourself (DIY) applications. This article delves into the DIY literature within the [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Münevver Başman, Senanur Turgut, Kader Serezli Dates: 30 May 2024 Toxic masculinity is socially regressive male characteristics that foster male dominance, devaluation of women, homophobia, and violence. It can be defined as the behavior patterns that society imposes on men and all of the harm that men inflict on themselves and their environment while trying to act in accordance with these behavior patterns. The aim of this research is to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool that will measure toxic masculinity. The [...]

First Language: English Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Note Authors: Seray Akkülah Dates: 30 May 2024 Alice Oseman, the author of an LGBTQ+ young adult graphic novel that focuses on the lives and romance of two boys, has made a comment that caused some controversy on the internet. This comment by Oseman illustrates a somewhat common view held by Western society toward East Asian Boys Love (BL) genre. That is: BL novels and webcomics being highly sexual, fetish works with little literary value. This research note tries to analyze what could be the [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Kaan Akın Dates: 30 May 2024 This article is based on the idea that the concept of "flawed cinema", which draws a parallel between the New Queer Cinema and the Third Cinema, and Julia Garcia Espinosa's understanding of "imperfect cinema", which is also reflected in the discussions of Kurdish cinema, constitute an intersection point. Both terms have the possibility to be discussed within the same framework. In the article, firstly, the relationship between queer cinema and Third Cinema will be shown. Then, the discussions [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Halil Pak, Özlem Cankurtaran Dates: 30 May 2024 Transgender youth are among the disadvantaged groups living under pressure in society. One of the emancipatory values of the social work profession, which advocates for human rights and social justice, is empowerment. Therefore, it is among the responsibilities of the social work profession to fight together with transgender youth on a dialogic axis so that they can become more empowered and live a free and dignified life. However, it is observed that research and practice examples [...]