Browsing by Author "O'Neil, Mary Lou"
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Politics Policies Pronatalism and Practice: Availability and Accessibility of Abortion and Reproductive Health Services in Turkey
MacFarlane, Katrina A.; O'Neil, Mary Lou; Tekdemir, Deniz; Cetin, Elvin; Bilgen, Baris; Foster, Angel M. (Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2016)Turkey has maintained liberal contraception and abortion policies since the 1980s. In 2012 the government proposed to restrict abortion -
Prayer bead gestures and television: A case study on cultural inspirations for interaction art education
Özcan, Oğuzhan; Akdemir, Emre; O'Neil, Mary Lou; Ayça Ünlüer, Adviye (MIT Press Journals, 2009)The authors interactive design-art educators recount their experience in using cultural inspirations as part of student exercises. The authors found that although students proposed various design concepts drawing from the ... -
Racism against gypsies in Turkish and American films
Köşetaş, Tijen (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2006)Keywords : Amerika ve Turk Filmlerinde irkcilik -- cingeneler. -
Rape comparative study on feminist perspectives privileged feminists black feminists and Turkish feminists
Emanet, Zühre (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2006)Is it possible to assume that “rape” has one specific determination? Is it possible to find different definitions of rape around the world? If women are most frequently victims of rape, is it about being women? Is there ... -
Religion as a factor influencing turkish women's decisions to work
This article uses survey data collected from more than 500 women in Istanbul to examine whether or not religion exerts an influence on women's decisions to work or not. Our work revealed that religion does not appear to ... -
Selfish vengeful and full of spite: The representations of women who have abortions on Turkish television
O'Neil, Mary Lou (2013)This article analyses the portrayal of women who have abortions in four recent Turkish television series Gümü? A?k-i Memnu Hanimin Ç iftlig. i andÖyle Bir Geçer Zaman ki all of which appeared between 2005 and 2011. It is ... -
Strangers to and producers of their own culture: American popular culture and Turkish young people
O'Neil, Mary Lou; Güler, Fazil (2010)American popular culture is virtually everywhere including Turkey. Turkey is a close ally of the United States and American cultural products have long been present in Turkey. How does the presence of American popular ... -
Women's Access to Property: A Comparative Study on Islamic and Kemalist Women in Turkey
O'Neil, Mary Lou; Toktaş, Şule (Wiley, 2017)This article uses a comparative approach to discuss women's access to property using evidence collected from field research conducted on two distinct communities of Istanbul: one secular and one Islamic. The two groups of ... -
Women's Property Rights in Turkey
O'Neil, Mary Lou; Toktaş, Şule (Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2014)Abstract This article takes Turkey as a case study exploring marital and inheritance regimes with regard to their impact on women and their ability to protect women's property rights. The aim of the study is to bring to ... -
You Are What You Wear: Clothing/Appearance Laws and the Construction of the Public Citizen in Turkey
O'Neil, Mary Lou (Berg Publ, 2010)As Turkey set its sights on modernization and Westernization in the early decades of the twentieth century, clothing reform took center stage. The state used clothing as a constitutive element in its establishment and ...