WOMEN AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN MODERN TÜRKIYE

SBMO119

Course Code: SBMO119
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 4

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Associate Degree

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Professor Elif Evrim Şencan

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Explain the status of women in the pre-Islamic Turkish states.
Describe the structure of the classical Ottoman family and the position of women within it.
Identify the developments in women's rights during the Ottoman modernization process.
Explain the progress of women's rights during and after the Second Constitutional Period.
Analyze the impact of modernization on women.
Discuss the activities and contributions of women during the Turkish War of Independence and the Atatürk Era. Compare these developments with those in Europe.
Evaluate the reflections of the transformations experienced during the Republican Period on contemporary society.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Description

This course examines the transformation of women's social, political, and economic positions in Turkey after the Republic. Within its framework, the struggle for women's rights, gender roles, and the effects of modernization processes on women are analyzed. The primary objective is to provide students with the competence to evaluate the dynamics of social change from a female perspective.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Women's Place in Historiography and the Gender Perspective
2^nd Week	The Social Status of Women in the Pre-Islamic Turkish States
3^rd Week	Women and Education: The Use of Women's Education as a Modernizing Factor during Ottoman Modernization
4^th Week	The Woman Question in the West, Women's Emancipation, Debates on Women's Rights, and the Suffragette Movement
5^th Week	Women's Identity and the Question of Women's Emancipation in the Ottoman Empire: Debates within the Framework of Turkism, Westernism, and Islamism
6^th Week	Modern Reforms Concerning Women's Rights during the First and Second Constitutional Periods; Women's Journals and Associations; Women Poets and Writers
7^th Week	Women's Associations during the Balkan Wars and the First World War; Women's Employment (Women's Labor Battalion, Society for the Employment of Women)
8^th Week	Midterm Examination
9^th Week	Turkish Women during the War of Independence (on the Frontline, Behind the Front, and in Public Rallies)
10^th Week	The Women's People's Party and the Turkish Women's Union
11^th Week	Women's Education during the Atatürk Era
12^th Week	Women's Legal Rights during the Atatürk Era
13^th Week	Women's Political Rights during the Atatürk Era
14^th Week	Manifestations of Social and Political Emancipation: The Portrait of Turkish Women as Creative and Productive Figures in Science, Literature, and the Arts

Recommended or Required Reading

Emel Doğramacı, Past and Present of Women in Türkiye, Ankara, 1989.
Leyla Kaplan, Turkish Women in Associations and Political Organizations, Ankara, 1988.
Tezer Taşkıran, Turkish Women's Rights on the 50th Anniversary of the Republic, 1973.
İnci Enginün, Müjgan Cunbur & Cahide Özdemir, Turkish Women in the War of Independence, Ankara, 1983.
Bernard Caporal, Turkish Women in Kemalism and the Post-Kemalist Period, Ankara, 1982.
Afet İnan, The Rights and Duties of Turkish Women Throughout History, Istanbul, 1982.
The History and Destiny of Women in Türkiye, ed. Evrim Şencan, Ankara, 2021.
Şefika Kurnaz, Turkish Women before the Republic (1839?1923), Ankara, 1990.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	40
Total(%)		40
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		40
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		60
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam	1	1	1
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	8	2	16
Preparation for Final exam	1	35	35
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam	1	25	25
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	1	1
Homework
Total Work Load			120
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			4
ECTS Credit of the Course			4

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1	LO2	LO3	LO4	LO5	LO6	LO7
K1
K2		X
K3
K4
K5
K6						X	X
K7			X	X
K8
K9					X
K10	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
K11
K12

	LO1	LO2	LO3	LO4	LO5	LO6	LO7
K1
K2		X
K3
K4
K5
K6						X	X
K7			X	X
K8
K9					X
K10	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
K11
K12

	LO1	LO2	LO3	LO4	LO5	LO6	LO7
K1
K2		X
K3
K4
K5
K6						X	X
K7			X	X
K8
K9					X
K10	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
K11
K12

	LO1	LO2	LO3	LO4	LO5	LO6	LO7
K1
K2		X
K3
K4
K5
K6						X	X
K7			X	X
K8
K9					X
K10	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
K11
K12