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Migration is not a novel occurrence; it has always been a driving force along with civilization. The main catalyst behind the new era of migration is globalization. Migration is a gendered topic, and in previous academic discourse from... more
Sex segregation, particularly one that is reinforced in the name of religion, is often blamed for fortifying gender discrimination in society as a whole. This dissertation examines this assumption in Islamic society and investigates how... more
James Bond'un Soğuk Savaş'ın en sıcak dönemlerinden birisinin yaşandığı 1962 yılından günümüze değin 23 adet film ve 6 farklı oyuncunun canlandırmış olduğu Bond kişiliği (persona: maske) ile adeta bir 'dizi-film' gibi, kendisini devamlı... more
The prism of professionals and their professional associations has provided scholarship with an entry point to interrogate the complex social dynamics that existed in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China. Much of this work,... more
This is a presentation prepared for a session as a resource person for a Faculty Development Program on 'Self, Society and Personal Development' in April 2020.
The ‘spatial turn’ and the ‘third wave of feminism’ had a very far reaching impact on the way gender and space has been approached since 1980s. It established that gender was not stand-alone, rather it intersected with everything else... more
Women's mobility is central to understanding cultural constructions of gender. Regarding ancient cultures, including ancient Greece, a re-evaluation of women's mobility within the household and beyond it is currently taking place. This... more
Given the economic and social marginalization of women and gender variants, architects and planners need to develop a holistic understanding of gender to designinclusive spaces as space has a dialectical relationship with social settings.... more
In the 2010s, a new phenomenon was spotted in the Seoul Metro. K-pop fans began adorning subway stations with large ads congratulating their heroes-so-called K-pop idols-on their birthdays and other anniversaries. Not only have these... more
Common phrases around the discussion of the Telugu Film Industry are that it is sexist and male-centric. This thesis expounds upon the making and meaning of masculinity in the Telugu Film Industry. This thesis identifies and examines the... more
City and the self in the novel 'The bastard of Istanbul'. Keywords: Gendered spaces, Turkish feminist literature, patriarchal social control This paper refers to the problems of female representation in different parts of the city... more
This article provides a critical overview of the treatment of the question of gender in Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah. In other words, it probes the implication of women in postcolonial Nigeria, with regard to how their... more
Governments of developing countries initiate low-income housing schemes with the objectives of enabling the urban poor: upgrade their living conditions, acquire house construction skills and, own houses. In Uganda, most of the low-income... more
The paper considers Neolithic anthropomorphic figurines and their connections to clothing, dress and costume, as represented and/or emphasized on them. It examines iconographic evidence for the use of dress and costume on various parts of... more
This thesis aims to investigate how individuals practice and produce urban spaces through the construction of the body in a gender context. The neighborhood of To- phane is chosen as a case study for its critical position as being in a... more
"To Answer a Need" distinguishes the women’s club house typology and relates the history of the Women's Club Movement, specifically examining Southern California clubhouses erected during and after the Progressive Era. As women’s club... more
From the immediate postwar period to the mid-1960s, the kitchen environment represents a social and cultural topos in Italy; as such it is influenced by gender stereotypes and embodies reflections and research developed by contemporaneous... more
Identity and belonging increasingly feature as themes in the work of contemporary artists, a focus that seems particularly felt by those artists who either personally or through their families have experienced dispersal and migration. The... more
This paper explores the continuities and transformations wrought in Tamang systems of sex and gender by the recent extensive wage outmigration, mostly of men. That is, it is about what is happening to the material prospects for Tamang men... more
In arranged marriages, bride-givers and bride-takers participate in the transactional space with different intentions during marriage solemnization. Hypergamy along with caste-endogamy restricts the options for brides’ fathers in the... more
WORK IN PROGRESS (Work State January 2022 My PhD project is entitled "Not Our Place? Irish Youth and Their Social Spaces in Transition." My research focuses on the younger section of society and their social spaces on the island of... more
VIDEO PRESENTATION: https://youtu.be/MDcHYe5vUAI ABSTRACT: One social construct that is sometimes overlooked in the study of sacred architecture involves how the binary symbolism of gender (i.e., feminine and masculine) is mapped or... more
Abstract Much attention has been paid to Naples as the setting of Elena Ferrante’s novels. But her tetralogy "My Brilliant Friend" (2011-2014) features a narrative frame set in the city of Turin. Turin is also the topographic background... more
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this research explores rooftops as gendered spaces where women practice what I propose calling ''bread-nurturing,'' a gendered labor through which women secure and provide nutritious and delicious food for... more
Over the past two decades the commercial music magazine industry has lapsed into a deepening cycle of continuous decline. The demise of the widely popular UK pop music magazine, Smash Hits, in 2006 and the announcement of the final print... more
Gendered video game spaces, spaces in which particular types of gendered performance and play are considered welcomed, appropriate, or intended, has been a topic of conversation in game studies since the 90s. While previous research on... more
"Casa dolce casa? Il lavoro in ambito domestico dall’epoca preindustriale allo smart-working", Convegno internazionale, SIS-Società italiana delle storiche, Roma, Casa internazionale delle donne, 18-20 novembre 2021 _ The home has... more
This chapter analyzes the representation of the subject-forming processes of female characters in the Lucifer TV series through the characters’ relation with space and how ‘evil’ is presented here as the distortion of the traditional... more
Recent research on the role of 'safe space' within Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) shows that the social inclusion of young women in traditionally male sporting spaces may shift who can comfortably access and shape public spaces.... more
This research deals with solo travelling in case of women from Turkey in the intersection of tourism geography, cultural geography and feminist geography. It aims to understand their risk perceptions, destination choices and level of... more
A coursework submission from the second year of my English BA. A discussion of the importance of space in the American novel, focused on the close analysis of Willa Cather's 'The Professor's House'. I examine the relationship between the... more
The pandemic has caused important transformations in our everyday lives. Home has lost its central feature of being a daily cyclical station, becoming the only place for self-quarantine. At this point, home life intertwined with that of... more
Penang is a rapidly urbanizing city in Malaysia. Neo liberal urban development in Penang challenges the vernacular built environment of the city. The Urban fabric of Penang is rich with different traits of architecture from the West and... more
Governments of developing countries initiate low-income housing schemes with the objectives of enabling the urban poor: upgrade their living conditions, acquire house construction skills and, own houses. In Uganda, most of the low-income... more
A new form of medical space emerged in China at the turn of the twentieth century with the introduction of the hospital in the Western biomedical model through Christian missionaries. The circumstances surrounding the introduction of... more
El análisis de la intervención pública de denuncia, denominada Femicidio es genocidio (2017) realizada en Buenos Aires, permite a la autora reflexionar sobre el ámbito simbólico y la agencia política del uso de los cuerpos... more
A short paper, from a feminist perspective, covering the production of representational narrative space in Daphne Marlatt's novel, Ana Historic. Exploring space (both narrative and physical) in relation to the female body, identity, and... more
is article examines African American women's movement in racialized and gendered space in Austin, Texas in the mid twentieth century, re ecting on the relationship between race, gender, power and space. It draws on oral history interviews... more
Many written documents and illustrations left from Ilkhanid period (medieval era) which called Tabriz school in art history studies. Tabriz school was flourished in the reign of Qazan Khan. Ilkhanid illustration covered various subjects... more