Mustafa Kara- Doctor of Philosophy
- Dr. at Cukurova University
Mustafa Kara
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Dr. at Cukurova University
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Introduction
Mustafa Kara currently works at the School of Foreign Languages, Cukurova University. Mustafa does research in Literary Theory, English Literature, Gender Studies, Utopianism, and Comparative Literature. Their most recent publication is "Ruling Bodies, Ruined Lives: Colonialism and Patriarchal Control in The Grass is Singing".
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March 2009 - May 2015
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September 2014 - March 2023
September 2009 - February 2014
September 2004 - June 2008
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Publications (27)
Feminism, as a social and political phenomenon, has been controversial in all terms, for there are various types of it and each type is associated with a certain group of people, culture, or society. While the first wave and second wave feminism types are totally Eurocentric and are concerned with the emancipation of the white middle class women in...
Encapsulating a wide variety of approaches, Romanticism was triggered by such invaluable poets as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge as a harsh protest and revolt against the mechanical representation of life owing to the outcomes of the Age of Enlightenment. Though human experience was one of the core points of the Romantic Tradition,...
The feminist discourse faces challenges in being inclusive, as it does not adequately address the needs and experiences of women from various racial, cultural, and linguistic origins. The preceding waves of feminism mostly centred around the concerns of white middle-class women, while neglecting to acknowledge the marginalisation endured by the Thi...
Sultana’s Dream, written by Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain in 1905, is a utopian novella that challenges established gender norms in a manner that effectively undermines the process of conventional gender stereotyping. Hossain’s narrative unfolds in Ladyland, a society where women assume responsibility for various aspects of life, while men are conf...
Greed, a cardinal sin originating from early Christianity, is a notable recurring theme in literature and is universally prevalent throughout civilizations, literary works, and theological systems. It is widely held that people who exhibit greed defy God's command and face punishment, but those who sincerely abide by His commands receive blessings....
The rapid transformation in education, particularly within the
realms of English Language Teaching (ELT), English Literature, and
Applied Linguistics, is being shaped by technological advancements and
evolving pedagogical practices. In the book English Studies: A
Multifaceted Lens, a collection of studies is presented that delves
into various dimen...
Yüzyıllardır süregelen kadın sorunsalı ve buna bağlı olarak toplumsal cinsiyet
rolleri ile ilgili çalışmalar, Türkçe literatürde de oldukça hız kazanmış,
yapılan çalışmaların sayısı zaman içerisinde büyük bir artış göstermiştir. Kadın
ve yemek ilişkisine farklı açılardan ve değişik teorik arka planlardan yaklaşan;
roman, şiir, öykü ve drama gibi ed...
Despite the passage of several decades since one of the most influential demonstrations of women's activism in America during the 1970s, feminist discourse continues to struggle with inclusivity, failing to adequately address the needs and experiences of women from diverse racial, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds. The first and second waves of...
The examination of the mining engineering profession from the perspective of both female and male engineers and the investigation of the profession in terms of gender equality constitute the main scope of this study. This study also aims to define and recommend solutions to the issues based on sexist roles faced by mining engineers who had studied...
Feminist utopian and dystopian works manifest similar issues with different approaches. In feminist utopias, there is a stark difference between the present patriarchal systems and fictional societies. Traditional gender roles such as wifehood and motherhood among many others are generally not employed within feminist utopian novels. Most important...
The examination of the mining engineering profession from the perspective of female engineers and the investigation of the profession in terms of gender equality constitute the main scope of this study. This study also aims to identify and offer solutions to the problems based on sexist roles faced by female mining engineers in Turkey who have stud...
Toplumsal cinsiyet, biyolojinin kodladığı maddi bedenlere manevi anlamlar yükleyerek onları kültürel olarak tanımlamak ve ayırmak; kadın ve erkeği, kadınlık ve erkeklik denen rol ve statüler bütünüyle özdeşleştirmektir. Bu ayrım, kadının aleyhine birçok eşitsizliğin doğmasında başrolü oynamaktadır. İnsanlığın başlangıcından beri var olan çalışma ol...
Orientalism has been a highly controversial subject matter which was triggered centuries ago. Various methods have been applied by the Westerners in order to explore and invade the exotic nature of the Orient so as to conquer it and benefit from all aspects of the virgin lands. European scholars and European scholarship have performed the biggest p...
Joanna Russ’ The Female Man incorporates a wide range of sociological issues such as the necessity of differentiating between sex and gender, women’s position within societies, gender construction, patriarchal impositions on women and men, the transitivity of gender categories, performativity in gender, and so on. These problematic cases, however,...
Language is considered as a person's identity, both national and individual, thereby making him/her a part of a whole. Being parts of a whole, everybody feels himself/herself as an ontological entity within a specific community. This, on the basis, makes him/her feel a sense of self-respect and value, which are the principal attributions – though n...
After the Reorganization Period (Tanzimat Dönemi), roughly between 1860 and 1895 during the reign of the Ottoman Empire, the effects of West over Turkish Literature increased more and more. In the route of modernization, people attached much more importance to the West, thus gave it way to permeate into the lives and correspondingly, to the literat...
This thesis analyses the inferiority of femaleness to maleness regardless of the skin colour in the works, The Grass is Singing, by Doris Lessing, and Nervous Conditions, by Tsitsi Dangarembga. While the patriarchal system allows men to oppress women both physically and spiritually, the colonial structure, constituting the basis for the Third World...
