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Last Updated: 29/09/2025

Code - Course Title Compulsory/Elective Laboratory + Practice ECTS
SOS445 - Women’s Movement and Feminism in Türkiye VII. SEMESTER 3 +0 4.5
Language of Instruction Türkçe
Course Type Area Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s) ÖĞR. GÖR. DR. GÜLCAN ERGÜN
Mode of Delivery This course will be taught face to face.
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Prerequisites There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
Courses Recomended There are no other courses recommended for this course.
Recommended Resources • Atılgan, G.; Saraçoğlu, C. ve Uslu, A. (Yay. Haz.) (2015). Osmanlı’dan Günümüze Türkiye’de Siyasal Hayat, İstanbul: Yordam.• Toprak, Zafer (2014). Türkiye’de Kadın Özgürlüğü ve Feminizm (1908-1935), İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları.• Çakır, Serpil (1996). Osmanlı Kadın Hareketi, İstanbul: Metis.• Ekmekçioğlu, Lerna & Bilal, Melissa (2006). Bir Adalet Feryadı: Osmanlı’dan Türkiye’ye Beş Ermeni Feminist Yazar (1862-1933), İstanbul: Aras.• Yelsalı Parmaksız, Pınar Melis (2017). Türkiye’nin Modernleşmesinde Kadınlar: 1839’dan Günümüze, Ankara: İmge.• Sancar, Serpil (2017). Türk Modernleşmesinin Cinsiyeti: Erkekler Devlet, Kadınlar Aile Kurar, İstanbul: İletişim.• Çakır, Serpil (2019). Erkek Kulübünde Siyaset, İstanbul: Sel.• Kandiyoti, Deniz (2019). Cariyeler, Bacılar, Yurttaşlar, İstanbul: Metis.• Göle, Nilüfer (2011). Modern Mahrem, İstanbul: Metis.• Çağlayan Handan (2014). Analar, Yoldaşlar, Tanrıçalar: Kürt Hareketinde Kadınlar ve Kadın Kimliğinin Oluşumu, İstanbul: İletişim.
Work Placement This is not appropriate for the course.
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Weeks Learning Outcomes Topics Teaching Methods
Week - 1 Introduction: Development of the women’s movement in the Ottoman Empire and the World
Week - 2 Women’s Movement and Feminism in the Second Constitutional Monarchy Period
Week - 3 Pioneering Women of Feminism in Turkey: Turkish and Armenian Pioneers
Week - 4 Gender Regime of Ottoman-Turkish Modernization
Week - 5 Kemalism, the Republic and Women
Week - 6 Women’s People’s Party, Turkish Women’s Union and Nezihe Muhiddin
Week - 7 Women’s Struggle for Citizenship in Turkey
Week - 8 2nd Wave of Feminism in Turkey
Week - 9 1990s: The spread and institutionalization of feminism
Week - 10 3rd Wave of Feminism in Turkey
Week - 11 Kurdish Women’s/Feminist Movement
Week - 12 Current Debates in the Women’s/Feminist Movement in Turkey
Week - 13 Discussion
Week - 14 Discussion

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