Feminist discussions on the headscarf problem in Turkey : examination of three women's journals; Feminist Yaklaşımlar, Kadın Çalışmaları Dergisi, Amargi

Download

index.pdf

Date

2008

Author

Çorbacıoğlu, Gül

Metadata

Show full item record

Item Usage Stats

263
views

98
downloads

The aim of this thesis is to explore the stance of feminist movement towards a dialogue with Islamist women and the ‘headscarf problem’ in Turkey in 2000s. This is done by examining three magazines which claim to contribute to feminist movement and women’s studies in Turkey, namely Feminist Yaklaşımlar, Kadın Çalışmaları Dergisi and Amargi, all of which have been started to be published in 2006. It tries to explain the way in which feminists framed the issue has changed since the 1980s and 1990s, when the feminist movement and the debates on headscarves were on the rise in Turkey. In order to understand the shift of feminist discourse(s) on the headscarf issue, it also tries to explain how the women’s movement and women’s status in Turkey have transformed since the 19th century, along with the debates on the headscarf.

Subject Keywords

Sociology., Women

URI

http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12610312/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18362

Collections

Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Feminist solidarity: possibility of feminism in solidarity practices Astarcıoğlu Bilginer, Sibel; Ecevit, Fatma Yıldız; Department of Sociology (2009) In this study, possibility of establishing feminist solidarity, sustained and based on feminist politics in Turkey is examined. Commonality discourse, the notion of sisterhood and identity politics, creating illusionary homogeneity are criticized of being exclusionary and limiting. Contemporary accounts of feminist solidarity are investigated in order to find a way out for establishing solidarity across difference. However, it is seen that these contemporary approaches are far from designating a driving for...
Changing discourse on women and islam in Turkey in ethnographic studies Onur, Petek; Saktanber, Ayşe Nur; Department of Sociology (2016) This thesis provides an analysis of the change of ethnographic discourse on women and Islam in Turkey. Based on the theoretical framework of feminist postcolonial theory it analyses the ethnographic studies as texts and focuses on the concepts of subjectivity, subalternnes, otherness, and agency in Muslim women's discursive representations and binarism, Eurocentricism, essentialism in the way discourse is produced. It adopts Michel Foucault’s theorization of discourse, knowledge and power as a methodology t...
UNDP's approach to women's rights: dthe case of Turkey Devlet, Yelda; Ertürk, Yakın; Department of Gender and Women's Studies (2006) This study has focused on UNDP’s approach to women’s rights particularly in Turkey. In order to provide a context for the discussion of the role of the UNDP in Turkey on the realization of women’s rights, the thesis examines the emergence of women’s rights discourse within the international arena and its repercussions in Turkey. This has facilitated the understanding of (1) the emergence of a women’s rights movement at the global level, (2) the spread of the idea and perception of ‘women’s rights’ movement ...
The critical overview of the European Union gender equality policies and their implications for Turkey Gökalp, N. Ela; Ertürk, Yakın; Department of Sociology (2005) Since the 1990̕s, interest in the European Union (EU) gender equality policies has increased among feminist scholars and activists. In this context, studies focusing on equal pay for work of equal value, equal treatment in education, and access to employment, among others have been undertaken and different dimensions of the EU gender equality policies have been a subject of much debate. This thesis is an effort to critically review the potential of these policies vis-à-vis their capacity to bring about gend...
Representation of the Kurdish question in Hurriyet and Cumhuriyet (1990-2006) Bayındır, Özge; Yeğen, Mesut; Department of Sociology (2007) The aim of this study is to analyze the transformation of the official discourse and perception of the Kurdish issue and Kurds through its representations in Turkish media since 1990. Ottoman period and the Republican period till 1990s are studied in the first phase, in order to provide the historical backgroud of the Kurdish question and state’s perception of the issue. In the second phase, representations of state’s perception of the Kurdish issue in Hürriyet and Cumhuriyet newspapers are analyzed by usin...

Citation Formats

G. Çorbacıoğlu, “Feminist discussions on the headscarf problem in Turkey : examination of three women’s journals; Feminist Yaklaşımlar, Kadın Çalışmaları Dergisi, Amargi,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.