| Course Name |
History of the Women’s Rights Movement
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Code
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Semester
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Theory
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Application/Lab
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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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| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
| 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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To be able to use advanced, field-specific conceptual, theoretical, and practical knowledge acquired, |
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To be able to analyze and research field-specific concepts and ideas and to interpret data individually or as a team using scientific methods, |
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To be able to understand and use grammatical and semantic structures of the source and target languages, |
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To be able to obtain information about social, cultural, and historical approaches within the source and target languages and to use this information for textual analysis and production, |
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To be able to understand and interpret written and oral texts in the source language and to transfer these texts into the target language using a semantically and functionally appropriate language, |
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To be able to produce creative translations and assess the translation products critically by defining the steps, strategies and problems in the translation process in the light of field-specific theoretical knowledge and skills acquired, |
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To be able to transfer the theoretical knowledge and research skills within different areas of expertise to translational act, |
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To be able to use computer-assisted translation tools and machine translation effectively at each step of the translation process, and to follow the theoretical and practical developments in these fields, |
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To be able to gain awareness of the translator’s social role, job profile, and professional ethical values and to acquire workload management skills for individual or team work, |
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To be able to access necessary sources to improve quality at each step of the translation process and to assess the target text in accordance with the quality objectives by using these sources, |
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To be able to establish effective oral and written communication skills both in English and Turkish, to be able to speak a second foreign language at a good level, to be able to use a third foreign language at intermediate level, |
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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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