The gender of informal economy

Although there isn’t any evidence of the microcredits alleviating poverty and NGOs solving the social problems, they continue spreading. What is empowered here is...

A strange Tinder story: flirting in the meta-reality

Dear friend, it is obvious that in real life you are not cut out for flirting. Why do you insist on continuing the same...

April 21, 2008: Protest for Pippa Bacca in Istanbul and Gebze!

Women from Istanbul and Gebze made a protest for Pippa on April 21, 2008. In the statements read in Istanbul and Gebze, it was...

Checklist for womanhood: on marriage and motherhood

Society presents marriage and motherhood to women not as personal choices but as goals to achieve, and this sometimes causes women to give up...

Background to the Istanbul Convention dispute in Poland / An interview with Marta Lempart...

This interview with Marta Lempart, one the organizers of the Polish Women's Strike (Strajk Kobiet), took place at the WAVE (Women Against Violence Europe)...

The Lost Daughter: Under the crushing weight of responsibilities and the shadow of selfishness

What Leda sees in Nina is not just a motherhood experience, but one that is denied or ignored by everyone in the world. The film...

My early menopause story: Making one’s way through the darkness

I am curious to what I owe the umbrage that I feel towards going through menopause in my thirties which my peers will experience...

The earthquake is not over yet

As we deliver materials a woman says, “give me a broom, I am cleaning the tent with my hands.” To whose ears these words...

“Women’s fertility is always a topic of social order” / An interview with Hilal...

I.B. Tauris published The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey: Reproduction, Maternity, Sexuality during the summer of 2021. We spoke to Hilal...

Marriage is a call for political action, so is divorce

When their lives meet with that of a man, women are expected to take a break from the life outside to undertake domestic chores,...

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