Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

This article examines Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s and Paolo Virno’s use of Michel Foucault’s notions of ‘biopower’ and ‘biopolitics’ with respect to today’s hegemony of immaterial labor, i.e. work without an end product. In spite of relatively infrequent references to work, Foucault formulates these notions in m…

• DANIEL JUST

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• MUSTAFA YILDIRIM

The literature on pain has so far been primarily interested in chronic pain, medically induced pain and pain as an unwanted experience. However, pain is a more complicated experience and the lines between pain and pleasure are blurred in different contexts. In this paper, these lines are explored within the context of…

In recent years a growing literature on biopolitical governmentality, prompted by the work of Michel Foucault, presents subjectivity as the decisive locus of both the rule of neoliberal capitalism and the production of the common. While sharing its central focus of subjectivity, we are concerned with what this literat…

• CEREN ÖZSELÇUK

Social reproduction and women’s unpaid reproductive labour are integral both to capitalist production and class relations, and to international and national political economies. Based on an original theoretical framework that combines a Thompsonian historical materialist class approach, a Marxist-feminist social repro…

• AYŞE ARSLAN

We describe here a Turkish girl with pigmentovascularis type 2b, consisting of disseminated Mongolian-spot-like maculae and unilateral Sturge-Weber angiomatosis.

Feminist legal theory can be regarded as a significant challenge to traditional and dominant legal doctrine along with Critical Legal Studies (hereafter, CLS). Even though feminist legal theory has shared similar concerns and commitments with CLS, it differs therefrom in numerous significant ways. In this sense, femin…

• YAVUZ SELİM ALKAN

The erosion, or crisis, of modern democracies has long been an issue. One reason for this situation is the masculine structure of politics and governments, and their policies rendering women subordinate to men, which threaten the normative assumption that democracy is affected by the egalitarian structure of society a…

• FATİH KESKİN

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), attributing a particular importance to “woman” -in the narrow sense- and to all oppressed groups -in the broad sense-, has a peculiar position in the history of political thoughts. Taking a position different from the modern male thinkers in her era, she expanded such ideas as “reason”…

Aydınlanma sonrası toplumsal değişim ve dönüşümü anlamaya çalışan birçok kuram; toplum, aile, kişi ve devlet gibi unsurlara da yeni roller belirlemeye yönelik söylemler geliştirdi. Söz konusu sosyal kuramlar toplumsal, ulusal ve uluslararası arenada önemli etkiler oluşturdu. Birçok açıdan etkili olan kuramlardan bir t…

Aydınlanma sonrası toplumsal değişim ve dönüşümü anlamaya çalışan birçok kuram; toplum, aile, kişi ve devlet gibi unsurlara da yeni roller belirlemeye yönelik söylemler geliştirdi. Söz konusu sosyal kuramlar toplumsal, ulusal ve uluslararası arenada önemli etkiler oluşturdu. Birçok açıdan etkili olan kuramlardan bir t…

• ABDULLAH EROL

Bu araştırma, feminist teoride gelişen yaklaşımlardan biri olan kesişimselliğe ve sosyal çalışma disiplini ve mesleği için kesişimselliğin ihtiva ettiklerine yönelik bir alan-yazın değerlendirmesi yapmayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu doğrultuda, öncelikle sosyal çalışmada kesişimselliğin neden gerekli olduğu gelişen sosyal çalı…

• MELİHA FUNDA AFYONOĞLU