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 7047 POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND WOMEN IN TüRKIYE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Women's Studies Non-thesis

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR DILŞEN INCE ERDOĞAN

Offered to

Women's Studies Non-thesis

Course Objective

Examine the lives of Turkish women, their representation in the political arena, and their political rights during the political transformations in Turkey from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic.
Relate the changing political structures to feminist theory and explain the processes of change and transformation.
Define political institutions and women's rights from a gender perspective.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

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   Interpret political transformation processes in Turkey and the accompanying social change.
3   Analyze political transformation processes in Turkey and public policies from a critical perspective in terms of women's rights and equality principles.
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   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
2 Concepts: Gender, women, politics, feminism, political transformation, representation
3 Being a Woman in the Ottoman Empire I: Modernization and women's transition to the public sphere
4 Being a Woman in the Ottoman Empire II Constitutionalism, the Committee of Union and Progress, Women
5 Turkish women and representation during the National Struggle
6 The search for women's rights in the political arena of the Republic
7 Midterm exam
8 The transition to a multi-party system and women's representation
9 Women in local and national politics from the Democratic Party to the 1960 coup
10 Women in politics during the 1971 memorandum and the 1980 coup
11 The women's movement after 1980 and political transformation in Turkey
12 The women's movement and politics in the 1990s
13 Political parties, women's branches, quotas (from 1923 to the present)
14 Political party programs and women in Turkey I
15 Political party programs and women in Turkey II
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

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture + Presentation + Research + Discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

dilsen.inceerdogan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

by appointment

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Student Presentations 1 3 3
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
Project Final Presentation 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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