THE DEPICTION OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE IN TURKEY IN THE EDITORIAL CARTOONS OF THE ERA
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2015
Yazarlar: Gökçen BAŞARAN İNCE
Journal of Yaşar University, Uluslararası, 2015, cilt 10, ss 6413-6413
DOI: 10.19168/jyu.58781
Özet
For the peripheral modernisation projects, women have oftenly been the face of a rapidly modenising nation, shifting it from one civilisation to the other. The body of the women, its presentation and limits have always had connotative meanings, circumscribing their individuality within the identity of a nation. These assumptions are also valid for the modernisation case in Turkey in which women represented a vast transformation toward a Western and secular society. Granting of the suffrage rights was a historical moment in this process, referring to women becoming public personalities vested with political rights. Yet, this political process was also replete with a social and cultural background in which a new phase of neo-patriarchy endured. The aim of this article is to pursue the vestiges of this representation in the editorial cartoons of the era