COURSE UNIT TITLE

: POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND WOMEN IN TüRKIYE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KDN 6035 POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND WOMEN IN TüRKIYE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Women's and Family Studies

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR DILŞEN INCE ERDOĞAN

Offered to

Women's and Family Studies

Course Objective

Examining the life, political representation, and political rights of Turkish women during the political transformations from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey.
Relating changes in political structures to feminist theory and explaining processes of change and transformation.
Defining political institutions and women s rights from a gender perspective.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1-Evaluate the impact of political change processes in Turkey from the Ottoman Empire to the present day on the position of women in politics from a historical perspective.
2   2-Interpret political transformation processes in Turkey and the accompanying social change.
3   3-Analyze political transformation processes in Turkey and public policies from a critical perspective in terms of women's rights and equality principles.
4   4-Evaluate the rate of women's participation in politics at the local and national levels from the Ottoman Empire to the present day in relation to political transformation processes.
5   5-Relate the approach to women in party programs to political transformation in Turkey.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the course and information about resources A presentation will be made.
2 Concepts: Gender, women, politics, feminism, political transformation, representation A presentation will be made.
3 Being a Woman in the Ottoman Empire I: Modernization and women's transition to the public sphere A presentation will be made.
4 Being a Woman in the Ottoman Empire II Constitutionalism, the Committee of Union and Progress, Women A presentation will be made.
5 Turkish women and representation during the National Struggle A presentation will be made.
6 The search for women's rights in the political arena of the Republic A presentation will be made.
7 Midterm exam
8 The transition to a multi-party system and women's representation A presentation will be made.
9 Women in local and national politics from the Democratic Party to the 1960 coup A presentation will be made.
10 Women in politics during the 1971 memorandum and the 1980 coup A presentation will be made.
11 The women's movement after 1980 and political transformation in Turkey A presentation will be made.
12 The women's movement and politics in the 1990s A presentation will be made.
13 Political parties, women's branches, quotas (from 1923 to the present) A presentation will be made.
14 Political party programs and women in Turkey I A presentation will be made.
15 Political party programs and women in Turkey II A presentation will be made.
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Serpil Sancar, Türk modernleşmesinin cinsiyeti, erkekler devlet kadınlar aile kurar, iletişim yayınları, 2017, Istanbul.
Serpil Sancar, siyasetin cinsiyeti, cinsiyetçiliğe karşı kadın hakları Siyaseti, metis yayınları, 2023, Istanbul.
Catharine Mayer, Cinsiyet Eşitliği Dünyayı Nasıl Kurtaracak , Iletişim Yayınevi, 2019
Jürgen Habermas, Öteki Olmak, Öteki Ile Yaşamak, Siyaset Kuramı Yazıları, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Istanbul, 2012.
Afetinan, Tarih Boyunca Türk Kadınının Hak ve Görevleri. Istanbul, MEB, 1982
Bernard Caporal, Kemalizm ve Kemalizm Sonrası Türk Kadını 1919-1970, Ankara, T.Iş Bank. Yay., 1982
Bahar Üste, Siyaset Bilimi, Istanbul, 2011.
Ayşe Durakbaşa, Halide Edib: Türk Modernleşmesi ve Feminizm, Iletişim, Istanbul, 2000
Lucie Drechselova, Türkiye de Yerel Siyasete Kadınlar: Dışlanma Döngüleri, Iletişim 2022 Feryal Saygılıgil, Toplumsal Cinsiyet Tartışmaları. Istanbul, Dipnot Yayınları, 2006,
Muhibbe Darga, Anadolu da Kadın: On Bin Yıldır Eş, Tüccar, Kraliçe, Istanbul, YKY, 2013.
Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot, Kadınların Tarihi 1: Ana Tanrıçalardan Hıristiyan Azizelere, Istanbul, 2005.
Fulya Ilçin Gönenç, Roma Hukukunda Kadın, Ankara: Adalet Yayınevi, 2010.
Lin Foxhall, Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity. Key Themes in Ancient History, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Nuran Şahin, Antik Dönemde Anadolu da Kadın, Ege Üniversitesi Yayınları
Other course materials: Films and documentaries.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Presentation
Research
Discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The evaluation will be carried out through a midterm and a final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

dilsen.inceerdogan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 23 23
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
Project Assignment 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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