EMİNE IŞINSU’NUN HİKÂYELERİNDE FEMİNİZM
FEMINISM IN THE STORIES OF EMİNE IŞINSU

Summary/Abstract: Women have been one of the symbols of modernization since the Westernization process. Although women have equal rights over the law with men, it has not been possible to see the applicability of this equality in life because the habits brought by the patriarchal life style could not be abandoned in a short time. The concept of democracy, II. After the Second Constitutional Monarchy, in a way, it merges with the feminis movement and the longing for women to raise the personalities that will ensure the survival of democracy begins. The feminist movement, which started under the leadership of Simone De Beauvoir and called the “Second Wave Women’s Movement”, also affected Turkey in the eighties. In this period, when women’s existential problems regarding gender are discussed, being a woman and feminine questions are discussed, women are no longer listening and come to a position of speaking, discussing and making their own decisions. In our country, women who cannot use their legal right sand who are subjected too ppression and violence are handled by recent novelists, albeit partly for ideological purposes. One of these writers is Emine Işınsu. In particular, most of the artist’s stories are important in that they are examples of the reflections of the changes in the view of woman after the eighties in olur literature. In our study, we aim to identify the feminist elements in these stories and to determine how and for what purpose these elements are used.

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