Dilek Cindoglu

Kadir Has University | KHU · Department of Political Science and Public Administration

This article conceptualizes gender equity and sexual liberty issues that most of the literature on democracy and democratization in Turkey fails to address. The major focus of the article is on the convergent and divergent positions of the rising democratization discourse in contemporary Turkey. When the democratization discourses of different poli...

Withdrawal (WD) is not a reliable method for preventing unwanted pregnancies, yet it is still a very popular form of birth control in many societies, including Turkey. We look at the relationship between women's agency and physical space in relation to birth control choices of women in Turkey. Agency in our context refers to a woman's ability to re...

In this article, we explore the increasing medicalization of birth and the surge in Caesarean sections in order to examine how this phenomenon relates to the dominant modernization discourse on women's lives in contemporary Turkey. We analyze women's modes of resistance and conformity to medicalization of birth through qualitative data from 15 focu...

The determinants of the use of withdrawal in Turkey are examined using a multinomial logistic model. Data were drawn from a nation-wide population-based cross-sectional study, the Turkish Demographic Health Surveys that took place in 1998 and 2003. Detailed interviews were conducted with 8576 women aged 15-49 and analysed using SPSS. Contextual, cu...

This paper examines business masculinities and relationalities of empowerment in the everyday life experiences of male entrepreneurs and wives of entrepreneurs in three urban centers in Turkey: Gaziantep, Konya and İzmir. We take gendered power inequalities as structural and relational, and empowerment as a complex, multifaceted process. Based on a...

This paper investigates the gender wage gap for full-time formal sector employees, disaggregated by education level. The gap between the labor force participation rate of women with tertiary education and those with lower levels of education is substantial. There is no such gap for men. Hence, existing gender wage gap studies for Turkey, where we o...

In the last decade, discourse on sexuality has proliferated more than ever in the political realm in Turkey. The discursive utilization of women’s bodies and sexualities has appeared as the main tool to consolidate a conservative gender regime and the heterosexual family with children is promoted as the basic unit to reinforce hegemonic moral value...

This paper discusses the gendered nature of reproductive citizenship in contemporary Turkey through reading the abortion chronicles and exposes the utilization of women's bodies and subjection of women to demographic state policies. To this end, we focus on recent abortion debates originating from Prime Minister Erdogan's statement on May 25, 2012...

This paper is an attempt to contextualize the underrepresentation of women by looking at the ways in which women’s agency in political sphere is limited by the patriarchal political culture. This paper is a product of a qualitative research project titled “Gender in Local Politics” on the gender relations in local politics by utilizing in-depth int...

RWHR_A_193786.sgm 10.1080/09612020600938707 Women's History Review 0961-2025 (print)/1747-583X (online) Original Article 2006 Taylor & Francis 15 5 000000November 2006 SuleToktas suletoktas@yahoo.com This article is a historical analysis of Girls' Institutes in Turkey. These schools were estab-lished in the early Republican era in order to educate...

This article is a historical analysis of Girls’ Institutes in Turkey. These schools were established in the early Republican era in order to educate girl students to gender roles compatible with modernization and with the westernization project of the Turkish state. The analysis is based upon qualitative data (including interviews and focus groups)...

This article deals with the empowerment and resistance strategies used by working women in Turkey. In order to explore the ways in which gender ideologies are produced and resisted, a very specific group of women were studied using life history and focus group interviews. The interviews were conducted with women who had graduated between 1960 and 1...

This article deals with the empowerment and resistance strategies used by working women in Turkey. In order to explore the ways in which gender ideologies are produced and resisted, a very specific group of women were studied using life history and focus roup interviews. The interviews were conducted with women who hag graduated between 1960 and 19...

The extent and quality of prenatal care are important for the health of women and their babies. Recent studies suggest that women lack adequate prenatal care in contemporary Turkey. This paper uses regression models to examine the major factors impacting on the access of women to prenatal care through the 1993 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey....

This study examines first of all women's organizations in historical and political context and makes an account of their impact on social and political agendas. It discusses the organizational capacity and potentials of these organizations in the contemporary political climate of the 1990s, and points out some of the possible institutional structur...

This paper addresses modern Turkish medicine as arbitrator of two modern medical practices: virginity surgery and virginity tests. These medical procedures are currently practiced by medical doctors [obstetrician-gynecologists (ob/gyns)] in modern Turkish society. The virginity of unmarried women has had a great significance for many cultures. The...

Compares American and Turkish women professionals in the banking industry with reference to their perception of discrimination, their attitudes towards their work, the nature of support they receive and their levels of job satisfaction. Reports a questionnaire survey of two different samples representing women professionals in the banking industry....