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Item Open Access De-monstrating bodies, bestial machines: the posthuman in Halid Ziya Uşakligil’s short stories(Bilkent University, 2022-12) Altınyaprak, GamzeThis thesis explores the posthuman figurations in Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil’s four short stories, “Sevda-yı Sengîn”, “Kadın Pençesi”, “Mösyö Kanguru”, and “Kırık Oyuncak” in comparative and intermedial contexts. The thesis asks the question of how the boundaries between the human and posthuman are constructed, and whether the posthumanization is strengthened or melted these boundaries. For the answers, we visit ancient Greek mythological figures such as Pygmalion and Medusa and come back to the nineteenth century’s narrations that intermingled with dance, cinema, art, and poetry. These art forms and texts help us understand and change today’s narratives and social structures that oppress others. This thesis also explores the posthuman entanglement with nature and culture in and out of the realms of fiction/reality achromatically while all sorts of forming in texts bend the fixations.Item Open Access A feminist approach to family folklore: "Aganigi Naganigi"(2006) Uçar, A.This article is devoted to analysis of gender stereotyping in a TV commercial with a special focus on patriarchal family and family folklore. A recent TV commercial promoting consumption of hazelnuts, namely "Cave Man", portrays a "pre-historical" patriarchal family which reproduces stereotypical gender roles in economic and social spheres. In the commercial, women appear in stereotypical roles in which their position confined to private sphere of "cave" and excluded from knowledge. While two female protagonists cook and flaunt the "discoveries" of their husbands "inside" of a cave, two male protagonists "discover" fire and hazelnuts "outside" the cave. The commercial which reproduces passive, subordinated and domicile female stereotyping, stretches the historical domination of man to pre-historical ages and attributes universality to patriarchal nucleus family. The cave man, who discovered "hazelnuts", uses ciphered and vernacular phrase, "Aganigi Naganigi, to call his mate for sexual intercourse. Underlying message of the commercial conveys that "hazelnuts" help to increase male sexual power. By using oral formulas and rhymed slogans as its advertising strategy, the commercial increases the efficiency of its message, which explicitly stresses male sexuality and power while confining female identity and experience to a "cave".Item Open Access Fethullah Gülen’s understanding of women’s rights in Islam: a critical reappraisal(Routledge, 2017) Fougner, T.This article examines the gender views of Islamist preacher Fethullah Gülen, a citizen of Turkey who has not only risen to global prominence since the early-2000s, but also gained a reputation for having ‘progressive’ views on the status of women in Islam. Considering Gülen’s writings on women’s identity, the relationship between men and women, and the role of women in public life, the article establishes that Gülen is more accurately depicted as deeply conservative with respect to women’s rights and gender equality. Furthermore, it identifies instances of tension between nature and nurture in Gülen’s conception of men and women, and locates his insistence on women naturally being of a subordinate kind within his sociopolitical project of creating an Islamic society. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.Item Open Access Industrialization(SAGE Publications, Inc., 2004) Winter, Thomas; Carroll, Bret E.The process of industrialization, which began in the United States during the early nineteenth century, had an enormous impact on American constructions of masculinity. It complicated preindustrial notions of manhood based on male patriarchal control over family and household, while also generating new and often class-based definitions of gender. For some segments of the male population, industrialization eroded two critical foundations of preindustrial male patriarchy: It reduced the importance of property ownership and moved productive, income-generating labor out of the home. In doing so, it opened up opportunities for social and cultural experimentation with definitions of manhood both in and outside the workplace.Item Open Access Islamist women in the post-1980s modern Turkey: ambivalent resistence(Bilkent University, 2001) Tatlı, AhuThis thesis analyzes the situation of Islamist women in the post-1980’s Turkey. Islamist women who have participated in the Islamist movement of the post-1980’s, have become the objects of the struggle between the Islamist and secularist ideologies. Despite their increasing public visibility, they have been rendered invisible as active subjects, and attempted to be silenced. Islamist women are actively struggling for their presence in the public sphere and for holding active subject position, while rejecting the traditional ways of life. They are resisting to the stereotypes of the ‘ideal womanhood’ imposed on them by both to the secularist and Islamic patriarchy. However, this process of resistence, and the resultant identities and ways of life are full of contradictions and dilemmas stemming from the ambivalent position they are placed into by the conflict between the Islamist and secularist ideologies. In this thesis, the ambivalent resistance of Islamist women in the post-1980’s Turkey is elaborated with regard to the survival and resistence strategies they developed at the levels of both discourse and practice. Throughout the analysis, Islamist women’s literary works and the interviews conducted with them by several social scientists, as well as, the findings of the field research I conducted with ten Islamist women by using feminist methodology are utilized. This thesis aims to listen to the voices of Islamist women by moving beyond the hegemonic framework based on secularist/ Islamist and modern/ traditional dualities. From a feminist standpoint, the thesis tries to reveal the active agency of Islamist women and to understand their life experiences, without falling into the trap of re-objectifying, re-victimizing and re-silencing Islamist women in Turkey.Item Open Access Neighborhood effects and women's agency regarding poverty and patriarchy in a Turkish slum(Sage Publications Ltd., 2008) Erman, T.; Türkyilmaz, S.This paper aims to understand the interplay between the neighborhood (spatial) effects of poverty, ethnicity, kin, and patriarchy, and women's agency in the context of an inner-city slum in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. It is based on a field study that focuses on the experiences of women residents - that is, rural migrants known for their dependency on neighborhood spaces - and their grown-up daughters who were raised in the city. The neighborhood context - namely, the social and physical isolation of the site, the limited access to urban institutions, and the growing risk of crime - has a negative impact on women's lives, restraining but not determining women's agency. Women's struggle for agency in this context is contingent on other factors, including whether they live in ethnic clusters and whether their husbands are working, as well as urban experience and individual biography. © 2008 Pion Ltd and its Licensors.Item Open Access Patriarchy(SAGE Publications, Inc., 2004) Winter, Thomas; Carroll, Bret E.Patriarchy—the governance of the household and its members by the male paterfamilias(father of the family), and the social relations this arrangement entails—has empowered men in both private and public life and defined male gender identity throughout U.S. history. A male-governed household has often been perceived as a model of good public order. Patriarchy, while supporting social hierarchies and power relationships based on gender, has also served as a foundation for power systems based on race, ethnicity, and class, and thus created the impression that social hierarchies based on these categories are part of the natural order. Women, nonwhites, and other disempowered groups, however, have challenged patriarchal power.Item Open Access Rendering responsible, provoking desire: women and home in squatter/slum renewal projects in the Turkish context(Routledge, 2017) Erman, T.; Hatiboğlu, B.This article is situated at the intersection of urban restructuring, cultural conservatism and neoliberalism in the Turkish context to understand the new subject formations of poor women as they are relocated to high-rise apartment blocks in slum/squatter renewal projects by the prospect of homeownership via long-term mortgage loans. It contributes by showing the gendered effects of urban transformation on poor women as neoliberalism and conservatism interact. It draws upon two ethnographic studies that reveal women’s experiences embedded both in neoliberalism and patriarchy. In neoliberalism, women’s participation in the informal job market was promoted as they were made responsible for contributing to mortgage payments, and they were brought into consumption as they were provoked the desire for good homes via furnishing, and in patriarchy, women’s traditional roles in social reproduction were demanded in spite of their new roles and responsibilities. The study ponders women’s differentiated negotiations with patriarchy which resisted radical challenges when the family and the home framed women’s new responsibilities and desires. The rising conservatism rooted in Islam in Turkey, which prioritizes the family over individual women, created the conditions for it. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.