| Course Name |
History of the Women’s Rights Movement
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Semester
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Theory
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Application/Lab
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Local Credits
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GEET 312
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Fall/Spring
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3
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0
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3
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6
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| Prerequisites |
None
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| Course Language |
English
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| Course Type |
Service Course
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| Course Level |
First Cycle
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| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | DiscussionGroup WorkQ&ALecture / Presentation | |||||
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| Course Objectives | This course examines the history of the women’s rights movement and will analyze the ways that women have mobilized over the 20th and 21st centuries. Historical analysis will be used to trace how the women’s rights movement began, evolved and the divisions among different women’s groups. A special emphasis will be made on the history of the women’s rights movement in Turkey. |
| Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course aims to give students insight into women’s rights movement of the 20th and 21st century by comparing and contrasting the different waves of feminism. The contribution of international organizations, particularly the United Nations will be discussed in greater detail and a special emphasis will be made on the women’s rights movement in Turkey. |
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| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction | - |
| 2 | Basic Concepts | • Walby, S.(1989), “Theorizing Patriarchy”, Sociology, pp. 213-234. • Valdes, F., “Unpacking Hetero-Patriarchy”, pp. 161-211. Suggested: • Blank, H. (2012), Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality. |
| 3 | Historical Background | • Aivazova, Svetlena (1994). “Towards a History of Feminism”, Russian Studies in History, pp. 63-69. Suggested: • Okin, Susan Moller (1979). “Rousseau’s Natural Women”, The Journal of Politics, pp. 393-416. |
| 4 | Early and First Wave Feminism | • Hodgson-Wright, S. (2001), “Early Feminism”, in The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminisms, pp. 3-15 • Sanders, V. (2001), “First Wave Feminism,” in The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminisms, pp. 16-28. |
| 5 | Movie: “Iron Jawed Angels” by Katja von Garnier3 | https://suffrageandthemedia.org/source/iron-jawed-angels-film-suffrage-activists/ |
| 6 | Second Wave Feminism | • Thornham, S. (2001), “Second Wave Feminism”, in The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminisms, pp.29-42. Suggested: • Duru Dogan, H. (2010). İkinci Dalga Fransız Feminizmine Kısa Bir Bakış, Türkiye’de Toplumsal Cinsiyet Çalışmaları, pp. 67-99. |
| 7 | Second Wave Feminism Movie Screening: “Made in Dagenham” by Nigel Cole | • Thornham, S. (2001), “Second Wave Feminism”, in The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminisms, pp.29-42. Suggested: • Duru Dogan, H. (2010). İkinci Dalga Fransız Feminizmine Kısa Bir Bakış, Türkiye’de Toplumsal Cinsiyet Çalışmaları, pp. 67-99. |
| 8 | Third Wave Feminism | • Gamble, S. (2001), “Postfeminism”, in The Routledge Companion to Feminism and Postfeminisms, pp. 43-54. Suggested • Hokulani K. Aikau, Erickson K.& Pierce, J.L. (2018). “Feminism, First-, Second-, and Third-Wave”, in The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. • Rivers, N. (2017). Postfeminism(s) and the arrival of the Fourth Wave. pp. 107 -131. |
| 9 | Ottoman Woman’s Movement | • Serpil Çakır (201 0 ) . Osmanlı Kadın Hareketi: XX. Yüzyılın Başında Kadınların Hak Mücadelesi. Türkiye’de Toplumsal Cinsiyet Çalışmaları . pp. 99 -115. • Demirdirek, A. (1998). In pursuit of the Ottoman Women's Movement (Translated by Zehra F. Arat), in Deconstructing images of the Turkish woman, pp.65 -83. |
| 10 | Mid-term | - |
| 11 | Feminism in Turkey I | • Sirman, Nükhet (1989). Feminism in Turkey: A Short History, New Perspectives on Turkey, 1 -33. • C Diner, Ş Toktaş (2010). Waves of feminism in Turkey: Kemalist, Islamist and Kurdish women's movements in an era of globalization, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, pp.41 – 57 |
| 12 | Feminism in Turkey II | • Miller, Ruth A. (2007). Rights, Reproduction, Sexuality, and Citizenship in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 32, no. 2. • Coşar, Simten & Kerestecioğlu, İnci -Özkan (2013). Feminizmin Neoliberalizmle İmtihanı, Doğu Batı Toplumsal Cinsiyet II, pp. 21 -37. |
| 13 | Presentations | - |
| 14 | Presentations | |
| 15 | Review of the Semester | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Lecture notes will be uploaded to Blackboard/ GEET 312/Materials section.
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| Suggested Readings/Materials | They will be uploaded to Blackboard/GEET 312/ Materials section. |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation |
1
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10
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| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | ||
| Presentation / Jury |
1
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25
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| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm |
1
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30
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| Final Exam |
1
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35
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| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
3
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65
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| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
1
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35
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| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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| Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
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3
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48
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| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours) |
16
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0
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| Study Hours Out of Class |
15
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3
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45
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| Field Work |
0
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| Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
0
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| Portfolio |
0
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| Homework / Assignments |
0
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| Presentation / Jury |
1
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10
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10
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| Project |
0
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| Seminar / Workshop |
0
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| Oral Exam |
0
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| Midterms |
1
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14
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14
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| Final Exam |
1
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39
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39
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| Total |
156
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Program Competencies/Outcomes |
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To have the knowledge of classical and contemporary theories in sociology, and be able to comparatively analyze these theories. |
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To have the knowledge of main methodological approaches in sociology as well as social research and data analysis methods. |
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To have knowledge in the fields of general sociology, sociology of institutions, social structure and change, and applied sociology. |
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To be able to determine the appropriate methods in the design of the planning stage and conclusion of a sociological project, individually or as part of a team. |
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To be able to diagnose the social dynamics behind personal problems by using sociological imagination. |
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To be able to define social problems at local, national, and global level, and offer new policies for solutions. |
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To be able to apply commonly-used computer programs for data collection and analysis in sociological research. |
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To be able to develop a socially responsible, scientific and ethical perspective regarding the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. |
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To be able to analyze different aspects of the social world by drawing on the knowledge produced by other disciplines of the social sciences. |
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To be able to constantly renew herself/himself professionally by following scientific and technological developments in sociology and social research. |
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To be able to collect sociological data and communicate with sociologists and other social scientists in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). |
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To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently. |
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To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. |
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