Louıse Şimşek, Mary

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Mary, Louise Simsek
Louıse Şimşek, MARY
M. Louıse Simşek
MARY LOUISE ŞIMŞEK
LOUISE ŞIMŞEK, MARY
L., Mary
Louıse Şimşek,M.
Mary Louıse Simşek
Mary Louıse Şimşek
Louise Simsek,M.
LOUISE ŞIMŞEK, Mary
Louıse Simşek, M.
Louise Simsek,Mary
Louıse Simşek, Mary
Louise Simsek, Mary
Louıse Şimşek, M.
Mary LOUISE ŞIMŞEK
Louıse Şimşek, Mary
L.,Mary
M. Louıse Şimşek
O'Neil, Mary Lou
O'Neil, Mary Lou
Lou, O'neil Mary
Lou Oneil, Mary
O'Niel, Mary Lou
Oneıl, Mary Lou
Şimşek, Mary Louıse
Mary Lou, O'neil
O'neil, Mary Lou
O'neıl, Mary Lou
Lou Oneil, Mary
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Political Science and International Relations
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47

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Leonardo2
Contraception2
Women's Studies International Forum2
Digital Creativity1
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal1
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    The State Gives Me the Right Not to Do It: Reproductive Governance, Structural Violence and Barriers to Abortion Care in Türkiye
    (Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2026) O'neil, Mary Lou; Gogus, Eylem Mercimek; Degirmenci, Selma
    Abortion in T & uuml;rkiye is legal through ten weeks gestation without restriction as to reason, but it is often difficult to access. In recent years Turkey has undertaken an aggressive pronatalist politics of reproduction resulting in extensive reproductive governance that regulates reproductive health care in general and abortion access in specific. This research uses nationwide data collected in 2024 from public and private hospitals to ascertain the availability of abortion in T & uuml;rkiye. Currently, less than one third of hospitals report providing abortion care but this drops to just 5.1 % for public hospitals while 50.4 % of private hospitals offer abortion services. However, the lack of availability does not rely on simply denial but encompasses a multilayered system of barriers that restrict access. While some institutions simply stated that they do not perform abortions, many others cited varying obstacles that hindered their ability to provide such care. These included declarations that abortion is illegal, doctors' refusal to perform abortions, and use of gestational limits less than the ten weeks provided in law. Adding to these barriers is the lack of available information about abortion availability, the substantial distances required to travel to access care, and the price of abortion at private hospitals. By limiting abortion access, the state undermines individual autonomy and endangers the health and safety of pregnant people. In practice, legality offers little protection: the combination of institutional refusal, misinformation, geographic and financial hurdles, and political hostility makes abortion effectively inaccessible for many. T & uuml;rkiye's case illustrates how legal rights can be hollowed out by restrictive governance, leaving reproductive freedom precarious despite formal legality.
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    Citation - WoS: 25
    Citation - Scopus: 24
    The Availability of Abortion at State Hospitals in Turkey: a National Study
    (Elsevier, 2017) O'Neil, Mary Lou
    Introduction: Abortion in Turkey has been legal since 1983 and remains so today. Despite this in 2012 the Prime Minister declared that in his opinion abortion was murder. Since then there has been growing evidence that abortion access particularly in state hospitals is being restricted although no new legislation has been offered. Objectives: The study aimed to determine the number of state hospitals in Turkey that provide abortions. Study design: The study employed a telephone survey in 2015-2016 where 431 state hospitals were contacted and asked a set of questions by a mystery patient. If possible information was obtained directly from the obstetrics/gynecology department. I removed specialist hospitals from the data set and the remaining data were analyzed for frequency and cross-tabulations were performed. Results: Only 7.8% of state hospitals provide abortion services without regard to reason which is provided for by the current law while 78% provide abortions when there is a medical necessity. Of the 58 teaching and research hospitals in Turkey 9 (15.5%) provide abortion care without restriction to reason 38 (65.5%) will do the procedure if there is a medical necessity and 11 (11.4%) of these hospitals refuse to provide abortion services under any circumstances. There are two regions encompassing 1.5 million women of childbearing age where no state hospital provides for abortion without restriction as to reason. Conclusion: The vast majority of state hospitals only provide abortions in the narrow context of a medical necessity and thus are not implementing the law to its full extent. It is clear that although no new legislation restricting abortion has been enacted state hospitals are reducing the provision of abortion services without restriction as to reason. Implications: This is the only nationwide study to focus on abortion provision at state hospitals. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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    Citation - WoS: 1
    Citation - Scopus: 3
    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.
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    Citation - Scopus: 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.
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    Master Thesis
    Racism Against Gypsies in Turkish and American Films
    (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2006) Köşetaş, Tijen; O'Neil, Mary Lou
    Keywords : Amerika ve Turk Filmlerinde irkcilik -- cingeneler.
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    Master Thesis
    Economic Independence of Women in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Works
    (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2010) Yavaş, Ülkü; Lou Oneil, Mary
    This thesis aims to analyze the works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman in terms ofeconomic independence of women in the view of feminism and gender identity. Gilmanadvocated that women should work and take part in the labor market to eradicate their oppression and to contribute to women's improvement. Feminism means to struggleagainst men's patronizing and dominating over women legally, socially andeconomically and to defend that women are humans rather than sex. Feminists defendthat women have the same intellectual and professional capacity to work as men.Accordingly, Gilman believed that women contribute more to human progress if theywere given the same opportunity and freedom as men. She harshly criticized women's being parasite who were not working outside but imprisoned at homes doing onlyhousework and childrearing. In this case, women are economically dependent to men:Husbands are employers while wives are employees.Gilman wrote utopic novels to present solutions for economic inequitiesbetween men and women. She tried to reconstruct new modern gender roles for women,and to clear away the former constructed gender roles of the man-made world. In theirutopic countries, Gilman's strong and independent women characters have no pressuresof this man-made world. Adopting Herbert Spencer's conception of Social Darwinism,Gilman claimed that if women had to fall behind men in time by the social evolution;they can regain their economic, intellectual and social independence by social evolution.For Gilman, a social evolution is essential, and this needs women?s economicparticipation.
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    Citation - WoS: 7
    Citation - Scopus: 10
    Being Seen - Headscarves and the Contestation of Public Space in Turkey
    (Sage Publications Ltd, 2008) O'Neil, Mary Lou
    [Abstract Not Available]
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    Master Thesis
    The Eclipse of Apollo: Passion and Violence in the Theatre of Break
    (Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2014) Kartal, Esra; Lou Oneil, Mary; Howlett, Jeffrey Winslow
    The purpose of this thesis is to claim that even though there are centuries between the plays, they share and display the basic fight of the human nature which happens between the reason and the insanity. The duality of the mind actually gives life to existence of tragedy. However, concept of "madness" which is caused by this duality mostly results in violence that cannot be controlled in spite of the reason. This idea suggests that the ups and downs of the characters in the plays that have a significant effect on the course and the results of the events. For the study, two ancient Greek plays were chosen, Medea, and Oresteia. In parallel to these plays, two American plays were chosen to make the comparison with the Ancient Greek Drama, Mourning Becomes Electra and Street Car Named Desire. These plays all record moments of break-down: times when the system—the family, the state, the social norms—can no longer be seen as effective, functional or natural. The existing order is shown to be false and corrupt. This moment of break applies at all levels: Apollo and the critique of reason, social structures and the epistemological limits they impose, and indeed the genre of drama itself. When these systems show themselves to be old, static and oppressive, this type of theatre emerges to question the old order. Violence, passion and madness are deconstructive. The rational does not always explain power structures that confine us. Indeed, its purpose is to deny them. Reason alone cannot create compelling drama.
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    Citation - Scopus: 1
    Motherhood Citizenship and Rights: Illegal Abortions in Turkey
    (Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019) O'Neil, Mary Lou; Komut, Sultan
    [Abstract Not Available]
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    Master Thesis
    Yakınlık Politikası: Türkiye'de Flört Uygulamalarının Kullanımı Yoluyla Güç İlişkilerini ve Cinsiyet Rollerini Anlamak
    (2023) Takımlı, Ayşe Ceren; O'neıl, Mary Lou
    Bu araştırmanın amacı flört uygulamaları üzerinden heteroseksüel ilişkilerdeki güç dinamiklerini anlamak, flört uygulamalarının güç ilişkilerine etkilerini ve flört senaryosunda yarattığı değişiklikleri görmektir. Bu doğrultuda kapsamlı bir literatür taraması ile birlikte Türkiye'de yaşayan flört uygulaması kullanıcılarının deneyimlerini ölçmeye yönelik bir anket çalışması yapılmıştır. Geleneksel flört senaryosu ve online flört senaryosu karşılaştırıldığında yepyeni bir şeyle karşılaşılmamıştır. Aksine gelenekseli taşıyan ama yeninin yerini de yapmaya başlayan bir senaryo görülmüştür. Geleneksel senaryoyu ve güç ilişkilerini yavaş yavaş aşındırmaya çalışan, bu esnada bazen çarpıp geri dönen bir senaryo olduğu için 'mixed script'(karma senaryo) olarak adlandırılmıştır. Feminist bir ihtimal olarak Bumble sonuç bölümünde tartışılmıştır ve bir flört uygulamasının feminist olarak kabul edilebilmesi için daha fazlasına ihtiyacı olduğunun açıklaması yapılmıştır. Böylece aslında daha büyük bir soruya ulaşılmış, teknolojinin feminist olup olamayacağı sorulmuştur. Teknofeminismden yola çıkarak teknolojinin tek başına feminist olarak tanımlanmasının ve feminist bir dünyayı yaratmasının mümkün olmadığı, feminist bir dünyanın ancak topyekün sistemsel bir dönüşümle kurulabileceği ve teknolojinin de bunun bir parçası olabileceği açıklanmıştır.