Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Woman and Space in Turkey. This item is unavailable.Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Woman and Space in Turkey

While social structures and relations effect how we give meaning to spaces, our comprehension of spaces effects how we give meaning to what is social. We wanted to look into how women stroll through spaces, what roles and functions they undertake, how they give meaning to their engagement with spaces, and how, with their existence, they become one with spaces. We started this journey looking for clues as to how women, as they played their parts, re-interpreted those scripts written by sovereign powers, how they became stars, how they transformed limitations into the limitless, and how they created rich lives out of deprivation. We aimed to take up what kind of an intermediary role ‘space’ serves, while women stretched their limits – without objection, screaming, or revolting; how, in various forms, they have positioned themselves in spaces and re-defined their being, and how spaces in this journey served as an interface be-tween society’s perception of women versus their self-perception and their lives.

Gönül Bakay is a graduate of American College for Girls in İstanbul, Turkey. She has continued her education in English Language and Literature department of London University. She concluded her doctorate studies in the English Philology Department of I ̇stanbul University and started working in the M.A. program of Women’s Studies, department of the same University. Later she taught English Literature in Beykent University. Currently, she is a full professor and is a member of the Faculty of Bahçes ̧ehir University. Her teaching expertise covers Women’s Studies, Gothic Novel, and English Literature from the 18th century to the present. She is a member of the Women’s Studies Center of I ̇stanbul University, of M.S.E.A,.BSECS and a member of the board of directors of K.A.D. (Cultural Studies club).

She has published several books in Turkish: Virginia Woolf ve I ̇letis ̧im (Virginia Woolf and Communication), Günümüz Türk Kadını Bas ̧arı Öyküleri (Success Stories by Contemporary Turkish Women) from Remzi publishers, Kadın ve Mekan (Women and Space), and Atatürk'ü Yas ̧ayanlar (They Had Known Atatürk) edts. with Leyla Pekcan from Kırmızı Kedi publishers, Simone de Beauvoir, her life, philosophy and her Works (2014) from Turkuaz Publishers, William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecaft, Mary Shelley and Their offspring Franken-stein from Mellen Press, Memorable Encounters With Atatürk, 2017, and Trading Women, Traded Women with prof.Mihaela Mudure (edts), 2017, from Peter Lang publishers.