Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Koleksiyonu

Permanent URI for this collectionhttps://gcris.khas.edu.tr/handle/20.500.12469/2670

Browse

Browsing Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı Bölümü Koleksiyonu by Author "Güler, Fazil"

Filter results by typing the first few letters
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
  • Thumbnail Image
    Article
    Citation Count: 3
    The not so new Turkish woman: A statistical look at women in two Istanbul neighborhoods
    (2009) O'Neil, Mary Lou; Güler, Fazil
    Using survey data gathered from nearly 400 women living in two Istanbul neighborhoods this article explores issues of work education family and feminism. In addition to presenting the findings we argue that there is a continued gap between the ideal of the Republican woman and the actual practices of this group of Turkish women. The picture of these Turkish women that emerged from this survey is that of women still largely in the grips of an ideal born in the early days of the Turkish Republic. However it also became clear that there also exist rifts between belief and practice in the lives of these women: they seem to believe in many facets of the Republican woman while at the same time the practices they engage in belie some aspects of this belief. Ultimately it seems that in some respects they are in the process of constructing their own idea of a Turkish woman while at the same time some aspects of these women's lives remain deeply bound by traditional notions of gender.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Article
    Citation Count: 0
    Strangers to and producers of their own culture: American popular culture and Turkish young people
    (2010) O'Neil, Mary Lou; Güler, Fazil
    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 culture in Turkey affect young people? Employing a series of focus groups comprised of Turkish university students we explored the meanings they attach to American popular culture and the place it has in their lives. What emerged was a portrait of Turkish young people constructing themselves and their imaginations from a multiplicity of traditions including American into an ever changing shifting whole. The Turkish young people in this study seem to exemplify this as they blend their lives not always easily or smoothly around Turkish American European and numerous other cultures. © W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2010.