Reproductive practises: Kurdish women responding to patriarchy

Date

2011-07-01

Author

Him, Miki Suzuki
Hoşgör, Hatice Ayşe

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

187
views

0
downloads

This is an interpretive study of reproductive practise among Kurdish rural-urban migrant women in Van, Turkey. Van is one of the eastern provinces where Kurdish-speaking population is concentrated and high fertility persists despite the rapid fertility decline in the country. In order to explore the social dynamics behind the divergent fertility trend, this paper examines women's reproductive experiences in a migrant neighbourhood from a feminist perspective. Women and men in the studied neighbourhood have experienced considerable socioeconomic insecurities resulting from the destructive mass displacement in the 1990s. In an environment of insecurity, women's access to public spaces and reproductive healthcare was considerably hindered. This paper argues that Kurdish migrant women's enduring high fertility can be closely related to the form of patriarchy reconfigured in a way to minimise women's autonomy which is essential for the exercise of reproductive rights.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38270

Journal

WOMENS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2011.05.001

Collections

Department of Sociology, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Reproductive practices : Kurdish Women responding to patriarchy Miki, Him; Hoşgör, Hatice Ayşe; Department of Sociology (2010) This disseration is a case study of reproductive practice among Kurdish rural-urban migrant women in Van, Turkey. Van is one of the eastern provinces where high fertility persists despite the rapid fertility decline in the country. In Van and some other provinces where Kurdish population concentrates, however, fertility levels not only continue to be high but also increased in the period between 1980 and 2000. In order to explore the social dynamics behind the divergent fertility trend, this dissertation co...
Gender roles and community formation in Kurdish migrant women Akbay, Hivda; Kalaycıoğlu, Hediye Sibel; Department of Gender and Women's Studies (2003) The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the intersecting dynamics of gender and ethnic identities for Kurdish migrant women in Turkey. For this aim it attempts to investigate Kurdish migrant women's everyday lives in their private and public domains, which include in-family, out-family social and economic relations. It is expected that Kurdish women's gender and ethnic identities will intersect in these domains and will be effective in creating a specific ethnic community identity. For this re...
Money-earning activities and empowerment experiences of rural migrant women in the city Erman, Tahire; Kalaycıoğlu, Sibel; Rittersberger, Helga İda (Elsevier BV, 2002-7) This article investigates empowerment in relation to money-earning activities in the context of rural-to-urban migrant women in poor families in Turkey. Acknowledging the exploitative character of employment accessible to migrant women, it asks whether working migrant women gain something in their families in return for their economic contributions. The article points to the traditional role of men as the heads of the family and family honor (namus) as the cultural basis which acts against the empowerment o...
Empowerment of women through non-formal education programs in Turkey Ortaköylü Uysallı, Zülfiye Doğa; Ecevit, Fatma Yıldız; Department of Gender and Women's Studies (2017) Women’s empowerment programs are carried out in Turkey through various but shared contexts. These aim women’s empowerment through various methods which all aim different dimension of women’s empowerment. These dimensions reveal the common areas of women’s empowerment as benefits of the programs, whereas show the limitations. This study aims to research the effects of these programs for women; while also questioning the methods used in non-formal education programs. Through the research of two main empowerme...
Layers of liminality: a grounded theory study of refugee women in Ankara, Turkey Schroeter, Lara; Zırh, Besim Can; Department of Middle East Studies (2019) The focus of this study was on how women cope with living in forced displacement in Ankara, Turkey. Using a grounded theory methodology, and focusing on women's lived experience, allowed for an emphasis on the agency of these women, while also identifying their vulnerabilities. Eleven women with various ethnic backgrounds from Iraq and Syria participated in this study. An important finding in this study was that these women all shared the common experience of living in layers of liminality. They had separat...

Citation Formats

M. S. Him and H. A. Hoşgör, “Reproductive practises: Kurdish women responding to patriarchy,” WOMENS STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM, pp. 335–344, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38270.