Overview

This course provides a critical overview of Gender Studies, an interdisciplinary academic field that explores important questions about the meaning of gender in society. Its primary aim is to familiarise students with key issues, questions and historical and contemporary debates in Gender Studies. In this context, we aim to explore with students the complex ways in which gender intersects with class, race, ethnicity, sexuality and age in various fields and institutions of Turkish society.

Topics include feminism, LGBTIQ+/gender rights activism, class, ethnicity, law, masculinities, nationalism, Islam, media, cinema, memory, human rights and authoritarianism, with a strong emphasis on gender debates in Turkey.