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Information
| Code | ILEM809 |
| Name | Women Movements in Turkey |
| Term | 2024-2025 Academic Year |
| Semester | . Semester |
| Duration (T+A) | 3-0 (T-A) (17 Week) |
| ECTS | 6 ECTS |
| National Credit | 3 National Credit |
| Teaching Language | Türkçe |
| Level | Doktora Dersi |
| Type | Normal |
| Mode of study | Yüz Yüze Öğretim |
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Course Goal / Objective
It is aimed to teach the participants about women assertion on inequality and gender discrimination to which Turkish women are exposed from past to present, and evolution of feminist ideology. Besides, it is aimed that the participants acquire to interpret intellectual basis of women movement in Turkey according to feminist theories.
Course Content
In this course covered women social situations in modernizing The Ottoman Empire in 19. century, changes in domestic and public roles of women realized by Westernization of The Ottoman Empire, solidarity and struggle practices of women against patriarchal authority, and their journalism and literary works.In this context contributions and opinions of pioneer women, such as Makbule Leman, Fatma Aliye, Emine Semiye and Poet Nigar etc., will be covered. Furthermore, it is discussed that reforms after establishing Republic of Turkey, effects of Kemalist modernization on women social lives, education and working opportunities for women, limitations in public sphere for women and shortly idealized women image and women sphere related with Westernization goals of the Republic. Besides Nezihe Muhiddin and Turkish Women Union are addressed. In addition, Turkish women's movement will be analyzed in the context of world women's movement and related feminist waves.
Course Precondition
None
Resources
Arat, N.( 1996). Kadın Gerçeklikleri. İstanbul: Say Yayınları. Tekeli, Ş. (1982). Kadınlar ve Siyasal Toplumsal Hayat, İstanbul:Birikim Yayınları. Kandiyoti, D. (2013). Cariyeler,Bacılar,Yurttaşlar. İstanbul: Metis Yayınları. Sancar, S. (2012). Türk Modernleşmesinin Cinsiyeti. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları Davas, A. (2014). Eşitsiz Kız Kardeşlik. İstanbul: Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları. Bora, A. ve Günal, A. (2007). 90'larda Türkiye'de Feminizm. İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları. Tokuroğlu, B. (2004). Özgürleşemeyen Kadın. Ankara: Odak Yayınevi. Çakır, S. (2013). Osmanlı Kadın Hareketi. İstanbul: Metis Yayınları. Toprak, Z. (2014). Türkiye'de Kadın Özgürlüğü ve Feminizm (1908-1935). İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları. Kurnaz, Ş. (2015). Yenileşme Sürecinde Türk Kadını (1839-1923). İstanbul: Ötüken Yayınları. Zilfi, M.C. (2000). Modernleşmenin Eşiğinde Osmanlı Kadınları. İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları. Yıldız, F. (2020). 1930'lu Yılların Gazetelerinde Modern Kadın İmgesi. Konya: Literatürk Yayınevi.
Notes
Videos, films and documentaries about women and genders.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Order | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| LO01 | To be informed about women's movement in Türkiye and in the world. |
| LO02 | To learn The Ottoman women changing roles and women movement, equality and right demands of women, women struggles to be heard via literature and press. |
| LO03 | To recognize women association and pioneer women in feminist struggle from The Ottoman Empire to present. |
| LO04 | To argue about global and digital feminism and their reflections in Turkey. |
Relation with Program Learning Outcome
| Order | Type | Program Learning Outcomes | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLO01 | Belirsiz | Develops critical thinking skills. | 3 |
| PLO02 | Belirsiz | Have the conceptual and theoretical competence to explain the phenomena in Communication Studies disciplines. | 3 |
| PLO03 | Belirsiz | She/he has knowledge of basic methodological approaches, methods, research techniques and their application and evaluation in communication and media studies.(dişil) | 4 |
| PLO04 | Belirsiz | Identify local, national and international problems in the field of Communication Studies. | |
| PLO05 | Belirsiz | Gains the ability to analyze and synthesize the phenomena in the field of social sciences in an interdisciplinary context. | 4 |
| PLO06 | Belirsiz | She/He reports a social research she designed in the field of communication studies and turns it into original works in accordance with academic rules. | |
| PLO07 | Belirsiz | He/she transfers his/her knowledge of the field in an effective and systematic way, both verbally and in writing. Gains the ability to give lectures, conferences and seminars. | 4 |
| PLO08 | Belirsiz | Have sufficient knowledge about the basic conceptual approaches used in the field of social sciences. | |
| PLO09 | Belirsiz | Takes responsibility, leads and works effectively individually and/or in a team. | 3 |
| PLO10 | Belirsiz | Selects data collection and analysis techniques within the appropriate methodologies and applies empirical studies in order to solve these problems, | 3 |
Week Plan
| Week | Topic | Preparation | Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orientation and Introduction | Reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Tartışma, Anlatım |
| 2 | Establishing the feminist consciousness in the West and Sufragets' equality demands and struggle practices. | Reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 3 | The Ottoman modernization and emergence of women movement, the first women's magazine: Terakki-i Muhedderat | Reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 4 | Reflection of the Republic Reforms to the women's social lives, idealized modern women image of the new regime. | Reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 5 | Presentation of women in the newspapers and magazines in the early republic era. | Reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 6 | Turkish Women Union and Nezihe Muhiddin, political right demands and feminist struggle process. | Reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 7 | World's women sisterhood consciousness and the role of Ottoman's and The Republic's women in international women movement, the congress in 1935, abolishing of Turkish Women Union. | Reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 8 | Mid-Term Exam | Presentation | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Ödev |
| 9 | Transition into multiparty system and women's participation to the social lives, ideological construction of women identities and women spheres via women magazines, newspapers and radio programs. | Reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 10 | In 1960's and 1970's women's participation to the social lives, problems relating to equality and rights in private, and public sphere. | Reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 11 | The Women Movement in 1980's and 1990's in Türkiye, pioneer women, raising awareness about feminism and social movements ( women from the ' translation group' to street activism) | Reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 12 | Reflections of Third Wave Feminism, feminist ideology as part of women studies and women associations, responses to the masculine violence. | Reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 13 | Digital ( cyber) feminism phenomenon, feminist struggle via new media and social networks. | Reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 14 | Erkek şiddeti ve ataerkiye dayalı ayrımcılığa karşı Türkiye kadınlarının hukuki ve politik dayanışma ve direniş pratikleri | Reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 15 | General evaluation | Reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 16 | Term Exams | Presentation | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Ödev |
| 17 | Term Exams | Presentation | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Ödev |
Student Workload - ECTS
| Works | Number | Time (Hour) | Workload (Hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Related Works | |||
| Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| Assesment Related Works | |||
| Homeworks, Projects, Others | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Total Workload (Hour) | 146 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (h) | 5,84 | ||
| ECTS | 6 ECTS | ||