| Course Name | Gender Equality in Turkey |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| SOC 419 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course; |
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| Major Area Courses | X | |
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| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Presentation and overview of the course | West, C., & Zimmermann, D., (1987). Doing Gender, Gender and Society 1, 125-151. |
| 2 | Gender studies and method | Judith Lorber, “Believing is Seeing”, Biology as Ideology GSR Michael Kimmel and Amy Aronson, (ed.) 2010, The Gendered Society Reader, GSR, Fourth Edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, eds. 2007, Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Practice, Sage Publications. |
| 3 | History of Women’s Movement in Turkey | Kandiyoti, D. (1995) “Gendering the Modern: On Missing Dimensions in the Study of Turkish Modernity”, in Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey, eds. Sibel Bozdoğan and Reşat Kasaba, Seattle and London: University of Washington Press Yeşim Arat, 1993. “Women’s Studies in Turkey: From Kemalism to Feminism” New Perspectives on Turkey 9 (Fall): 119-135. Durakbaşa, A. (1998) ‘Kemalism as Identity Politics in Turkey’, in Deconstructing Images of theTurkish Woman, ed. Z. Arat, New York: St. Martin’s Press: |
| 4 | History of Women’s Movement and Gender Studies in Turkey I | Kandiyoti, D. A., & Kandiyoti, D. (1987). Emancipated but unliberated? Reflections on the Turkish case. Feminist Studies, 13(2), 317-338. Nükhet Sirman, 1993. Feminism in Turkey: A Short History,” New Perspectives on Turkey, 3(1): 1-34. Özbay, F. 1999 Gendered Space: A New Look at Turkish Modernization. Gender & History. 11(3) pp.555-568 |
| 5 | History of Women’s Movement and Gender Studies in Turkey II | Coşar S. & Özkan-Kerestecioğlu İ. (2016). “Feminist Politics in Contemporary Turkey: Neoliberal Attacks, Feminist Claims to the Public”, Journal of Women, Politics & Policy Selda Tuncer, Women and Public Space in Turkey: Gender, Modernity and the Urban Experience, selections. Simel Esim and Dilek Cindoğlu, “Women’s Organizations in 1990s Turkey: Predicaments and Prospects,” Middle Eastern Studies Jan, 1999; 35,1, 178-188. |
| 6 | Gender Studies: Identity Politics | Arat, Yeşim. Feminists, Islamists, and Political Change in Turkey. Political Psychology, 19/1, 117-32. Lou O’Neil, M. (2008). Being Seen: Headscarves and the Contestation of Public Space in Turkey. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 15(2), 101–115. Diner Ç. & Toktaş Ş. (2010) “Waves of feminism in Turkey: Kemalist,Islamist and Kurdish women's movements in an era of globalization”, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 12:1, 41-57. |
| 7 | Gender Studies: Queer | Bereket, T, Adam, B (2006) The emergence of gay identites in Turkey. Sexualities 9(2): 131–151. Görkemli, S (2012) ‘Coming out of the internet’: Lesbian and gay activism and the internet as a ‘digital closet’ in Turkey. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 8(3): 63–88. Savcı, E. (2016). Who speaks the language of queer politics? Western knowledge, politico-cultural capital and belonging among urban queers in Turkey. Sexualities, 19(3), 369–387. |
| 8 | MIDTERM | |
| 9 | Gender, Power and Politics | Ayse Gul Altinay : The Myth of the Military Nation. Militarism, Gender, and Education in Turkey (New York; Houndsmills, England: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004), pp 33-58. Karaman, Emine Rezzan. 2016. “Remember, S/He Was Here Once: Mothers Call for Justice and Peace in Turkey.” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 12 (3): 382–410. Ozbay, C., & Soybakis, O. (2018). Political Masculinities: Gender, Power, and Change in Turkey. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society. |
| 10 | Class and Gender | Özyeğin, G. (2002). The doorkeeper, the maid and the tenant: Troubling encounters in the Turkish urban landscape. Fragments of culture: The everyday of modern Turkey, 43-72. Bora, A. (2011). Kadınların Sınıfı: Ücretli Ev Emeği ve Kadın Öznelliğinin İnşası, selections, İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları. Dust Cloth/Toz Bezi directed by Ahu Öztürk, 2015 |
| 11 | Family | Yazici, B. (2012). The return to the family: welfare, state, and politics of the family in Turkey. Anthropological Quarterly, 103-140. Sirman, Nukhet (2004) `Kinship, Politics, and Love: Honour in Post-Colonial Contexts - The Case of Turkey', in S. Mojab and N. Abdo (eds) Violence in the Name of Honour. Istanbul: Bilgi University Press. Korkman, Zeynep Kurtuluş. "Politics of Intimacy in Turkey: A Distraction from “Real” Politics?" Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, vol. 12 no. 1, 2016, p. 112-121 |
| 12 | Body and medicine | Acar, F. and Altunok G. (2013) “The ‘politics of intimate’ at the intersection of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism in contemporary Turkey.” Women’s Studies International Forum 41: 14–23. Cindoglu, Dilek (1997) `Virginity Tests and Artificial Virginity in Modern Turkish Medicine', Women's Studies International Forum 20(2): 253-61. Kurtoğlu, Ayça, “Sex Reassignment, Biological Reproduction and Sexual Citizenship in Turkey”. Fe Dergi. No. 2 (2009): 84. |
| 13 | Popular culture and media | Kırca, Süheyla. “Turkish women's magazines: The popular meets the political.” Women’s Studies International Forum, 24(3/4), 457-468 • Bayramoğlu, Y., Lünenborg, M. Queer Migration and Digital Affects: Refugees Navigating from the Middle East via Turkey to Germany. Sexuality & Culture 22, 1019–1036 (2018) Suner, A. (2010) “The Absent Women of New Turkish Cinema” in New TurkishCinema: Belonging, Identity, Memory. London: I. B. Tauris. |
| 14 | Neoliberal Governance | Deniz Kandiyoti (2016) Locating the politics of gender: Patriarchy, neo-liberal governance and violence in Turkey, Research and Policy on Turkey, 1:2, 103-118 Berrin Koyuncu, Aylin Özman. (2019) Women’s rights organizations and Turkish state in the post-2011 era: ideological disengagement versus conservative alignment. Turkish Studies 20:5 |
| 15 | Review of the semester | |
| 16 | Final |
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| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 10 |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 15 |
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 35 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 4 | 65 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 35 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 20 | |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 13 | |
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 21 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 27 | |
| Total | 174 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To have the knowledge of classical and contemporary theories in sociology, and be able to comparatively analyze these theories. | |||||
| 2 | To have the knowledge of main methodological approaches in sociology as well as social research and data analysis methods. | |||||
| 3 | To have knowledge in the fields of general sociology, sociology of institutions, social structure and change, and applied sociology. | X | ||||
| 4 | To be able to determine the appropriate methods in the design of the planning stage and conclusion of a sociological project, individually or as part of a team. | |||||
| 5 | To be able to diagnose the social dynamics behind personal problems by using sociological imagination. | X | ||||
| 6 | To be able to define social problems at local, national, and global level, and offer new policies for solutions. | X | ||||
| 7 | To be able to apply commonly-used computer programs for data collection and analysis in sociological research. | |||||
| 8 | To be able to develop a socially responsible, scientific and ethical perspective regarding the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. | |||||
| 9 | To be able to analyze different aspects of the social world by drawing on the knowledge produced by other disciplines of the social sciences. | X | ||||
| 10 | To be able to constantly renew herself/himself professionally by following scientific and technological developments in sociology and social research. | X | ||||
| 11 | To be able to collect sociological data and communicate with sociologists and other social scientists in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | |||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently. | |||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | |||||
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