Mary Louıse Şimşek

Louıse Şimşek, Mary

Name Variants

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

Job Title

Prof. Dr.

Email Address

mloneil@khas.edu.tr

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Scholarly Output

43

Articles

25

Citation Count

0

Supervised Theses

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Competing Frameworks of Islamic Law and Secular Civil Law in Turkey: a Case Study on Women's Property and Inheritance Practices
(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2015) Toktaş, Şule; Louıse Şimşek, Mary; O'Neil, Mary Lou
The article stems from empirical research conducted with a group of women living in Istanbul who have conservative life styles bounded by an Islamic worldview. It attempts to illuminate the negotiation and contestation between the official civil law and Islamic law. The findings demonstrate that women inherit and bequeath property in a social setting where their gender roles are defined by their adherence to Islam. We argue that in Turkey women's inheritance practices are not determined solely in accordance with the secular civil law but rather are the result of a complex and intertwined combination of legal sources where an Islamic worldview often leads to the adoption of Islamic law. In other words the application of the secular civil law in Turkey is limited by the common practice of Islamic law. Rather than follow the gender equality mandated by the civil law the inheritance practices of many Islamic women are constituted with a deference to some aspects of Islamic law creating a situation of legal pluralism in Turkey. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Linguistic Human Rights and the Rights of Kurds
(Univ Pennsylvania Press, 2007) O'Neil, Mary Lou; Louıse Şimşek, Mary
[Abstract Not Available]
Rape Comparative Study on Feminist Perspectives Privileged Feminists Black Feminists and Turkish Feminists
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2006) Emanet, Zühre; Louıse Şimşek, Mary; O'Neil, Mary Lou
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 a relationship between gender asymmetry and rape in society? Can culture, ethnicity, race, class or gender make a difference while determining the crime? Is it only a crime? Can the perception of such a crime make difference depending on where you stand? How do women perceive this violence? Rape is a fact of everyday life. It is not an isolated phenomenon. This paper examines three different feminist perspectives. Black feminism and privileged feminists in the U.S, and Turkish feminism are studied in order to find out if the perception of rape can differ. This paper reveals the fact that determination of rape changes depending on where the determiner stands, how the determiner perceives society, how the determiner defines woman. The social explanation of rape can be different depending on the woman’s experience. In the determination of the rape, feminists’ class, race, ethnicity, nationality are factors while in explaining the issue
The Availability of Abortion at State Hospitals in Turkey: a National Study
(Elsevier, 2017) O'Neil, Mary Lou; Louıse Şimşek, Mary
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.
Racism Against Gypsies in Turkish and American Films
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2006) Köşetaş, Tijen; Louıse Şimşek, Mary; O'Neil, Mary Lou
Keywords : Amerika ve Turk Filmlerinde irkcilik -- cingeneler.
Economic Independence of Women in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Works
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2010) Yavaş, Ülkü; Louıse Şimşek, Mary; 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.
Being Seen - Headscarves and the Contestation of Public Space in Turkey
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2008) O'Neil, Mary Lou; Louıse Şimşek, Mary
[Abstract Not Available]
Motherhood Citizenship and Rights: Illegal Abortions in Turkey
(Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019) O'Neil, Mary Lou; Louıse Şimşek, Mary; Komut, Sultan
[Abstract Not Available]
The Not So New Turkish Woman: a Statistical Look at Women in Two Istanbul Neighborhoods
(2009) O'Neil, Mary Lou; Louıse Şimşek, Mary
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.
Selfish Vengeful and Full of Spite: the Representations of Women Who Have Abortions on Turkish Television
(2013) O'Neil, Mary Lou; Louıse Şimşek, Mary
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 clear from the varying storylines of these melodramas that the depiction of women who have abortions on Turkish television is decidedly negative. The women who have abortions are seen as defying cultural expectations to place motherhood before all else. They are portrayed as cheating on their husbands having sex outside of marriage and prioritizing career over marriage and family. The negative portrayal of women who have abortions in Turkish soap operas perpetuates the discourse on Republican womanhood which prescribes motherhood as women's national duty and as being at the core of their identity. © 2013 Taylor and Francis.