Year 2024 – Volume 16 – Issue 2

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Duygu Onay Çöker  Dates: 15 December 2024 This article aims to understand Beauvoir's concept of authenticity by drawing from the philosopher's philosophical texts, autobiographies, and characters in her novels. It seeks to reveal how the notion of inauthentic or romantic relationships in the Beauvoirian context creates an experience of oppression for women and aims to explore this within the experiences of academic women. Beauvoir's authenticity refers to an existence where women, as embodied subjects, can establish the foundation of their existence as being-for-themselves, questioning given [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Sibel Utar Dates: 15 December 2024 Turkey's position on the global migration map has undergone a significant transformation following the Syrian Civil War, which began in 2011, and by 2014, Turkey had become the country hosting the largest number of refugees in the world. With the acknowledgment by policymakers that the likelihood and inclination for Syrian refugees to return to their home country has diminished, social cohesion policies have been initiated since 2016.The central claim of this study, which aims to examine Turkey’s social cohesion [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Review Article  Authors: Anıl Özge Üstünel  Dates: 15 December 2024 Coercive control is defined as a relational pattern that involves threats, isolation, and control, targets a partner’s autonomy, independent decision-making, and subjectivity, and at times cooccurs with physical and sexual violence. The present review aims to understand the dynamics of coercive control in dating relations of emerging adults aged 18-30 and its effects on mental health. Studies show that coercive control in dating relations is exerted by a) restricting social relations and communication with the opposite [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Field Note Authors: Nagehan Taner Dates: 15 December 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: Münevver Azizoglu-Bazan  Dates: 15 December 2024 Feminist research processes have demonstrated that scientific research cannot be considered independent of the researcher’s interests, desires, needs, and fears. Accordingly, in addition to the research questions, the impact of the researcher’s subjectivity and personal experiences on the research process transformed to be positioned as too important to be ignored. Feminist research practice, as a methodological premise, redefines those being studied as “subjects” rather than “objects” and positions the researcher as “affected and positioned” rather than “objective and [...]

First Language: English Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Banu Açıkgöz, Bilgehan Açıkgöz Dates: 15 December 2024 The fundamental basis of human existence is the enjoyment of rights and freedoms. The capacity of sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals to enjoy equal access to their right to health is inextricably linked to the manner in which physicians interact with and treat SGM individuals. It is therefore evident that the perception of SGM individuals by physicians is a matter that requires further examination. The objective of this study was to gain insight into the [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Nüket Paksoy Erbaydar, Serap Şahinoğlu Dates: 15 December 2025 The purpose of this qualitative study is to evaluate the provisions related to women in Umumi Hıfzıssıhha Kanunu (UHK) (General Health Law) from a feminist perspective. For this purpose, words that evoke/ encompassing women in the law were examined; the results were grouped, and a content analysis was conducted regarding how the UHK) addresses the subjectivity of women.The law refers to women in twenty-four articles, using fourteen different expressions such as woman, wet-nurse, common [...]

Birincil Dil: Türkçe Konu:  Kadın Araştırmaları Araştırma Bölümü: Araştırma Makaleleri Yazar/lar: Gülşah Kurt Tarih: 15 December 2024 This study aims to examine the content produced by doulas, who have emerged critically in response to the medicalization of birth and have become professionalized as part of the "natural" birth movement. The idea that doulas serve as a bridge between natural and medical birthing practices is crucial for understanding how "natural" birth is perceived in contemporary society. The study suggests that birth today has become a field shaped by various professional actors, including birth psychologists, birthing teams, [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Burcu Nur Cengiz, Murat Ateşli Dates: 15 December 2024 Feminist art (ecofeminist art, activist art), which was organised in the 1960s to emphasise women’s identity and values against the dynamics of patriarchal society, to dismantle and balance male domination, deconstructs the existing despotic language in the art community through creative activist actions that draw attention to the sexism created by the white male-dominated art hegemony and the lack of representation of women. In a similar practice of deconstruction, psychoanalytic feminists, in the formation of [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Tuğçe Arslan Dates: 15 December 2024 The canon and canonization practice is built on the masculine gaze and its dominance in visual culture. The canon, which left the female artist and her work at the periphery of its own construction, across with feminism in the visual field as of the 1960s. Since this date, female body artists, who have performed performative productions with a feminist gesture, have been associated with the canon as a counter-attitude to the discursive and visual canon, even if they [...]