WOMEN’S COPING STRATEGIES AGAINST GENDER OPPRESSION: EXAMPLE OF ADALET AĞAOĞLU’S DAR ZAMANLAR (NARROW TIMES) TRILOGY

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2023-9

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Çopuroğlu, Merve

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The purpose of this study is to conceptualize women’s coping strategies against gender oppression in the society within the context of Turkish Literature. In order to focus on women’s coping strategies against gender oppression, Adalet Ağaoğlu’s Narrow Times Trilogy will be analyzed with the methodology of feminist criticism in order to construct women’s experience within patriarchal society through women’s own perception. In that sense, Narrow Times trilogy’s main character Aysel’s struggle with the patriarchal hegemony and her resistance against gender oppression will be highlighted. Throughout the thesis, Aysel’s personal narration of her self-actualization will be evaluated with its relevance to gender inequality, political opposition and patriarchal hegemony within the social and historical context that she is embedded. In this study, Aysel’s practices, which she performs while she is trying to embody her autonomous self, are conceptualized as practices of strategies against gender oppression. These feminist resistances which oppose to patriarchy have diverse strategies that can be observed within the context of Aysel’s everyday life including usage of her sexuality as an emancipatory tool, absence from the social events that do not align with her values, and to reconstruct her personal story by the act of remembrance. As result of this analysis, it has been claimed that Aysel’s personal experiences of actualizing herself shows common aspects with the collective reality of women in her generation and provides hope for the future generations by reclaiming feminist coping strategies with gender oppression.

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Adalet Ağaoğlu, feminist literature, patriarchal hegemony, gender oppression, autonomy, agency

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105219

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis