Kadin/Woman 2000 articles

Recent articles from Kadin/Woman 2000

Turkish women and the issue of Muslim moral renewal: the case of MUSIAD (Independent Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association).
December 1, 2005... Abstract This study problematises Muslim women's role and place in the renewal of the new Muslim morality from the Muslim businessmen's point of view and it is based on interviews conducted during the late 1990s. Two waves of Turkish modernisation has been identified regarding the...

A female Orientalist in the near East: Emelene Abbey Dunn/Yakin Dogu'da bir kadin Orientalist: Emelene Abbey Dunn.
December 1, 2005... Abstract Westerners' wonder and tendency for 'the other' in art goes back several centuries, although Orientalism appeared as a branch of science in the 19th century. The interest in the East was reinforced through trade, diplomacy, war and contact with the travellers and artists in...

The tradition of justice seeking of women on the sexual crimes against women in the Ottoman countryside/Osmanli tasrasinda kadinlara yonelik cinsel suclarda adalet arama gelenegi.
December 1, 2005... Abstract Most of the works on social and economic position of women in the Ottoman Empire have been based on Ottoman Court Records. Therefore, in this study, which deals with women, our main archival sources are Balikesir court records. The cases dealing with the crimes committed...

Women's inheritance right under Assyrian law/Eski asur hukuku'nda kiz cocuklarin baba Mirasindan payi.
December 1, 2005... Abstract Women's Inheritance Rights under Assyrian Law This paper examines the inheritance rights of women under Assyrian law during the first half of the second millennium B.C (2000-1500 B.C.). It begins by reviewing the inheritance rights of women and contextualizing those rights in...

'Civilized women' and 'light sports': modernisation, women and sport in the early Republican period of Turkey/'Uygar Kadinlar' ve 'Hafif Sporlar': Turkiye'de Cumhuriyetin ilk Yillarinda modernlesme, kadin ve spor.
December 1, 2005... Abstract In modern societies, sport is a sphere where dominant culture and hegemonic power are materialised. This sphere, being a site of reproduction and transformation of social and cultural values and a site of construction of social differences (i.e. those based on gender, class...