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Subject |
Related Preparation |
1) |
• Describe the content of the syllabus.
• List the course outline
• Explain the grading system evaluation methods
• Discuss the flow of the course
• Discuss politics as power relations
• Discuss theoretical and social cultural concepts of gender
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Review the syllabus
Read: Jane Pilcher and Imelda Whelehan, “Gender” and “Gendered,” Fifty Key Concepts in Gender Studies, London: Sage, 2004, pp. 56-61.
Jill Steans, Gender and International Relations: Issues, Debates and Future Directions, 2nd ed. Polity Press, 2006, pp. 7-11.
Carole S. Vance, “Social Construction Theory: Problems in the History of Sexuality,” in GTW, pp. 28-31.
Joan W. Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” American Historical Review, 91 (5) December 1986, pp. 1053-75.
Simone de Beauvoir, “Introduction: Woman as Other,” The Second Sex, 1949. Retrieved from www.marxists.org.
Ghada Karmi, “Women, Islam and Patriarchalism,” in M. Yamani, ed., Feminism and Islamic Law, Garnet Publishing, 1996, pp.69-85
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2) |
Defining gender |
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3) |
• Discuss theories of patriarchy
• Identify characteristics of patriarchal societies
• Discuss how feminist theories define patriarchy
• Evaluate whether gender is biologically determined or socially constructed
• Discuss the difference between sex and gender |
Read: Jane Pilcher and Imelda Whelehan, Fifty Key Concepts in Gender Studies, London: Sage, 2004, pp 48-46, 144-147, 105-108.
Mary Wollstonecraft, “From A Vindication of the Rights of Women,” in GTW, pp. 170-2.
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4) |
• Discuss key concepts in gender studies
• Compare and contrast different strands of feminist theory
• Discuss chronology of feminist theories
• Discuss the differences between the waves of feminism
• Evaluate the development of Black Feminist Movement within the framework of women’s movements timeline
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Read:
Deniz Kandiyoti, “Emancipated but Unliberated? Reflections on the Turkish Case,” Feminist Studies, 13 (2) 1987, pp. 317-338.
Nükhet Sirman, “Feminism in Turkey: A Short History,” New Perspectives on Turkey 3(1) 1993: 1-34.
Katharina Knaus, “Turkish Women: A Century of Change,” Turkish Policy Quarterly, 6 (5) 2007: 47-59.
Çağla Diner and Şule Toktaş, “Waves of Feminism in Turkey: Kemalist, Islamist and Kurdish Women’s Movements in an Era of Globalization,” Journal of Balkan & Near Eastern Studies; March 2010, 12 (1): 41-57.
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5) |
• Discuss the historical roots of feminist movement in Turkey
• Compare Kemalist, Islamist and Kurdish women’s movement in terms of their approach to the women’s rights and issues
• Identify how the politics of difference has an impact on the feminist movement in Turkey
• Illustrate how religious, ethnic and class differences result in the creation of alternative frameworks for feminist movement in Turkey
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Read:
Linda Gordon, “Malthusianism,” in GTW, pp. 59-62.
Anna Davin, “Imperialism and Motherhood,” in GTW, pp. 63-8.
Frank Dikkoter, “Race Culture: Recent Perspectives on the History of Eugenics,” in GTW, pp. 69-71.
Dicle Koğacıoğlu, “The Tradition Effect: Framing Honor Crimes in Turkey,” Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, 15 (2) Summer 2004, pp. 119-151.
Nükhet Sirman, “Kinship, Politics, and Love: Honour in Post-Colonial Contexts–The Case of Turkey,” in Shahrzad Mojab and Nahla Abdo, eds., Violence in the Name of Honour. Theoretical and Political Challenges, Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, 2004, pp. 41-56.
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6) |
• Discuss how sexuality is controlled in traditional and modern societies via examples
• Discuss different conceptualizations of sexuality
• Demonstrate the relationship between power and discourse on sexuality via examples
• Discuss the sources of control over women’s reproduction and their bodies
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Read:
Jane Pilcher and Imelda Whelehan, “Representation,” Fifty Key Concepts in Gender Studies, London: Sage, 2004, pp. 135-139.
David Gauntlett, Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction, London and New York: Routledge, 2002, pp. 57-90.
Stuart Hall, “Encoding, Decoding,” in Hall, D. Hobson, A. Lowe, and P. Willis, eds., Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies, London: Hutchinson, 1972–79, pp. 128–138.
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7) |
• Illustrate how women are affected by the female objectification in the media
• Discuss feminist perspectives on objectification
• Identify women’s strategies for resisting objectification
• Evaluate the images of femininity and masculinity conveyed through mass media
• Explain how portrayal of women in the mass media produces and re-produces gender stereotypes
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Read:
Cynthia Enloe, “Nationalism and Masculinity, in GTW, 1990, pp. 229-35.
Partha Chatterjee, “Nationalism: General,” International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, pp. 10336-10340.
Nira Yuval-Davis, “Gender and Nation,” in Robert L. Miller, ed., Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism : The Politics of Transition. Florence, KY, USA: Routledge, 1998. p 23-35.
Afsaneh Najmabadi, “The Erotic Vatan [Homeland] as Beloved and Mother: To Love, to Possess, and To Protect,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 39 (3) Jul. 1997: 442-467. .
Afsaneh Najmabadi, “Hazards of Modernity and Morality: Women, State and Ideology in Contemporary Iran,” İn Deniz Kandiyoti, ed., Women, Islam, and the State, London: Macmillan, pp. 48-76.
Deniz Kandiyoti, “Identity and its Discontents: Women and the Nation,” Millennium - Journal of International Studies, March 1991 (20): 429-443.
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8) |
• Midterm Exam
• Discuss theoretical and social cultural concepts of gender
• Discuss how feminist theories define patriarchy
• Compare and contrast different strands of feminist theory
• Discuss the historical roots of feminist movement in Turkey
• Discuss different conceptualizations of sexuality
• Explain how portrayal of women in the mass media produces and re-produces gender stereotypes
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9) |
• Illustrate how modern nation state relies on the maintenance of traditional gender roles
• Discuss feminist approaches to nationalism
• Discuss feminist approaches to citizenship
• Demonstrate the central role of sexuality in nation building
• Identify feminist critiques of oppressive patriarchal nation state
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Read:
Edward Said, “Introduction,” Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient, Penguin Books, (1978) 1995, pp. 1-28.
Nilüfer Göle, The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling, University of Michigan, 1996, pp. 1-26, 93-95.
Kim Shively, “Religious Bodies and the Secular State: The Merve Kavakçı Affair,” The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 1 (3) Fall 2005, pp. 46-72.
Sondra Hale, “The West and Veiling,” retrieved from the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies [electronic source]. http://www.international.ucla.edu
Nadje Al-Ali, Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women’s Movement, Port Chester, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 35-52.
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10) |
Discuss Islamic feminist movement via examples
• Evaluate the socio-political and cultural factors which played a role in the rise of Islamic feminism via examples from Muslim societies
• Identify the conceptıalizations and critiques of feminism by Muslim women
• Compare the process of the rise of Islamic feminist movement in Turkey with other Middle Eastern countries
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Read: Denise Walsh, “A Feminist Approach to Quotas and Comparative Politics,” Politics&Gender, 9 (3) 2013: 322-328.
Check website: UN Women, “Facts and Figures: Leadership and Political Participation,” http://www.unwomen.org/co/what-we-do/leadership-and-political-participation/facts-and-figures
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11) |
• Identify contemporary patterns of political participation among men and women
• Discuss the social, cultural and economic barriers to women’s political participation
• Evaluate whether there exists a gender gap in voting participation, cause-oriented activisim and membership of voluntary associations
• Compare and contrast gender differences in the levels of political participation via examples from different countries
• Discuss the measures that would ensure a more balanced gender political participation
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Read:
Jill Steans, “Gender Dimension of International Political Economy,” Gender and International Relations: Issues, Debates and Future Directions, 2nd ed. Polity Press, 2006, pp. 78-92.
Ayça Kurtoğlu and Töre Fougner, “Transnational Labour Solidarity and Social Movement Unionism: Insights from and beyond a Women Workers’ Strike in Turkey,” British Journal of Industrial Relations, 49, 2011: 353-375.
Simten Coşar ve Metin Yeğenoğlu, “The AKP and the Gender Issue: Shuttling between Neoliberalism and Patriarchy,” in Simten Coşar and Gamze Yücesan-Özdemir, eds., Silent Violence: Neoliberalism, Islamist Politics and the AKP Years in Turkey, Red Quill Books, 2012, p. 179-212.
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12) |
• Discuss key dimensions of the field of international political economy
• Illustrate the relationship between the reproduction of political and economic processes and gendered bodies
• Discuss how employment of women in production networks affect the dynamics of international political economy
• Discuss labour market gender discrimination via examples
• Evaluate postcolonial feminist interventions into political economy |
Read: Jill Steans, “Women’s Human Rights,” Gender and International Relations: Issues, Debates and Future Directions, 2nd ed. Polity Press, 2006, pp. 106-118. |
13) |
• Discuss historical, political, and social contexts of women's rights and activism via examples
• Compare and contrast traditional and feminist approaches to human rights
• Discuss UN’s position on the issue of women’s rights with a reference to The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
• Discuss the ways of ending violations of women’s human right |
Read: Deniz Kandiyoti, “Cariyeler, Fettan Kadınlar ve Yoldaşlar: Türk Romanında Kadın İmgeleri,” Cariyeler, Bacılar, Yurttaşlar: Kimlikler ve Toplumsal Dönüşümler, 2. basım, İstanbul: Metis, 2007, s.147-161 |
14) |
• Discuss gendered patterns in popular culture
• Identify how construction of gendered identities in popular culture affect patterns of consumerism
• Illustrate the relationship between gender stereotypes and representations of women in the mass media
• Discuss gender representations in consumerism via examples
• Discuss feminist critiques of contemporary popular culture |
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15) |
• Evaluate students via final paper and presentations
• Explain gendered dimensions of modern nation state
• Identify Islamic feminist movements
• Discuss political participation from a gender perspective
• Discuss feminist theorizations of international political economy
• Identify the origins and development of women’s human rights
• Identify gendered patterns in popular culture |
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