Year 2025 – Volume 17 – Issue 1

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Özge Kaytan Dates: 1 June 2025 In this study, I have attempted to explore the dynamic interplay between the researcher and the field, particularly when the researcher interacts with her/his community. I have discussed how the researcher's perception of herself as an insider or outsider affects her fieldwork and the implications for both the research process and the researcher's personal identity. My study also explores how the researcher experiences a sense of belonging and their position as either an insider or an outsider. Based [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Bilge Akar Dates: 1 June 2025 In this study, I aim to convey my experiences in my master's thesis study titled “Older men's experiences of loneliness after the loss of a spouse”, which I conducted as a young female researcher with older male subjects in Eskişehir between August 2023 and May 2024, by making use of my field notes. In the study, I elaborate on the in-depth interviews I conducted with older men and how I, as a young woman researcher, was positioned/positioned vis-a-vis older [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Gülben Salman Dates: 1 June 2025 Phenomenology has become an important ally for feminism by claiming to overcome the mind-body dualism that has long been at the center of the history of philosophy. In the history of philosophy, which identifies men with the mind and women with the body and positions the latter as inferior, the elimination of such a dichotomy opens up a new field of possibility for feminism. In this article, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, the first text written in terms [...]

First Language: English Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Henrieta Krupa Dates: 1 June 2025 This article examines Lord Byron’s satirical depiction of the Oriental harem and its women in Canto Five of Don Juan (1821/1859), arguing that Byron’s departure from conventional Orientalist narratives subverts Western fantasies, revealing the intricate dynamics of power, desire, and signifying processes. Through a Lacanian lens, the study explores the Western subject’s desire to signify the Oriental other, positioning the harem and its women as the elusive objet petit a—the unattainable object-cause of desire that structures Western subjectivity. [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Gülbin Karakaya Sancar, Ayşe Mirza Girgin Dates: 1 June 2025 This study examines the magazine Türk Kadını (Turkish Woman), published between 1944 and 1948, in the context of gender policies during Turkey’s National Chief era. Gender roles have been discussed throughout history, though the framework and frequency have varied depending on geographic, cultural, economic, and political factor Periodicals serve as valuable sources to trace these change Türk Kadını has not been previously analyzed in academic literature, despite the scarcity of studies on women’s magazines [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Çağla Karabağ, Gülsüm Depeli Dates: 1 June 2025 This article analyses how the film The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal, 2021), based on Elena Ferrante's novel The Lost Daughter (La figlia oscura, 2006), is received by academic mothers in Türkiye. The fact that Leda, the main character of the film, is not only a mother but also an academic significantly affects the plot of the film, and her identity as an academic is as important as being a mother in the story. Therefore, the film [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Sezen Demirhan Dates: 1 June 2025 Studies in the medicine suggest that women are at a disadvantage compared to men at critical stages of organ transplantation. These stages include diagnosis of organ failure, referral to specialists, placement on waiting lists, access to organs and post-transplant follow-up. However, women are disproportionately represented among living organ donors. This study examines these gender-based inequalities through the lens of Risman’s theory of “gender as a social structure.” Through literature review, the research evaluates gender inequalities in organ transplantation [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Umut Şah Dates: 1 June 2025 The assumption that humans are divided into two opposing groups in terms of gender/sex and that all individuals belong to one of these two groups is called “gender binary”. In this view, sex is considered as a biologically dimorphic system, and therefore all gender-related characteristics are also assumed to be dimorphic. In other words, it is accepted that every individual is born either male or female and that their hormones, brain structure, and psychological characteristics are shaped accordingly. [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Ertuğrul Süngü, Deniz Özyurda Ergen Dates: 1 June 2025 This study examines the gender identities and sectoral experiences of women who have been working in Turkey's digital game industry for an extended period. The research provides an in-depth analysis of the gender-based discrimination and challenges women encounter across different areas of the sector. Through in-depth interviews, key findings have been obtained regarding the visibility of women in the industry, their strategies for combating inequality, and the role of female solidarity. Additionally, the study explores [...]

First Language: Turkish Subjects:  Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Beyza Nur Demir Dates: 1 June 2025 This article aims to conceptualise AI-generated pornography as a type of sexual abuse. Since almost all AI-generated pornography targets women and girls who do not consent to be a part of the content, the feminist critique of pornography is adopted in this analysis. The thesis of this paper is that it is impossible to generate ethical pornographic content with generative AI because it depends on the data scraped from the Internet without consent. Therefore, AI-generated pornography should be [...]