First Language: English Subjects: Women's Studies Journal Section: Book Review Authors: Sercan Yavan Dates: 17 December 2025 Book Review of The Economics of Gender in China: Women, Work and the Glass Ceiling by Sisi Sung (2023, Routledge) Sercan Yavan Dergipark Full Text
First Language: Turkish Subjects: Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Duygu Öztürk Kırışık Dates: 16 December 2025 This study evaluates the representation of women in local governments in Türkiye based on the results of local elections held between 2004 and 2024. A descriptive analysis is conducted using data obtained from official institutions such as the Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT), the Supreme Election Council (SEC), and international organizations. The findings indicate that the proportion of women represented in various levels of local government remains low in Türkiye. The study discusses policies aimed at increasing women's [...]
First Language: Turkish Subjects: Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Göze Orhon Dates: 16 December 2025 This article examines Karanlık Gece (A Dark Night, Özcan Alper, 2022) through the relational nexus of masculinity, violence, and social remembrance. Drawing on a rural murder narrative, the film explores how masculinities are constructed, how they enter into crisis, and how they are reproduced through the denial of the past. The study interrogates gendered forms of confronting the past and investigates the place of remembering and forgetting within masculine practices. Through thematic and semiotic analysis, it reveals recurring images [...]
First Language: Turkish Subjects: Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Cihan Alan Dates: 16 December 2025 This study examines how Kaos GL Magazine, the longest-running queer publication in Türkiye, constructed a collective identity through its first two texts published in 1994, the year it was launched. Until the early 1990s, the queer movement in Turkey had not been part of the new social movements, and queer identities had been rendered invisible. Kaos GL not only documented the development of the movement but also played an active role in the identity struggle of non-heterosexual individuals. [...]
First Language: English Subjects: Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Emek Bakanoğlu Kalkavan Dates: 16 December 2025 Cancer is one of the most important public health problems in today's world and is closely associated with mortality. Considering the aging population of the world, women constitute half of the population, and gender-based cancer risks are being discussed in current scientific studies. In the literature, it has been established that one in every 20 women is diagnosed with cancer and one in every 33 women dies due to cancer. Borderline ovarian tumors are quite significant, as [...]
First Language: Turkish Subjects: Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Merve Esra Özgürbüz Dates: 16 December 2025 This study offers a comparative analysis of Vasıf Öngören’s epic play Asiye Nasıl Kurtulur and Atıf Yılmaz’s film adaptation of the same title through the framework of feminist theories of visual culture and the aesthetics of epic theatre. Both the play and the film are analysed based on a tension that arises between Brechtian alienation and the erotic exhibition aesthetics of cinema, especially regarding the representation of the female body. The history of the figure of Asiye, situated [...]
First Language: Turkish Subjects: Women's Studies Journal Section: Research Article Authors: Feyza Düzgünsoy Dates: 16 December 2025 This article evaluates the place of Belkıs Mustafa (1896–1925), one of the first graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts for Women (İnas Sanayi-i Nefise Mektebi), in art history from a feminist perspective. The study’s main thesis is that the artist’s significance stems not merely from being an early period female figure, but from her adoption of a radical practice such as the male nude as part of her academic formation, despite the social and religious reservations [...]
