Prof. Ayse Durakbasa Ayse Durakbasa is born in Iskenderun at 1961. She finished her studies at the Sociology Department in Bosphorus University. Her master thesis was on The Formation of Kemalist Female Identity. In Essex Üniversity (England) she finished her doctorate dissertation on the ‘ Reappraisal of Halide Edib for a Critique of Turkish Modernization’. […]

First campaign against violence in the family. The motto of the campaign ‘Our Bodies Our Lives Belong to Us’ and ‘No to Sexual Harassment’ became one of the main strategies in women’s activities in the successive years.

The magazine published the news of womens’ actions, protest actions, activities within the feminist movement.

The topics discussed are sexual violence, battering of women, rape, virginity, abortion, prostitution, honor killings, mobbing, women’s images, sexual problems of women, legal rights, women and politics etc. Interviews with first islamic feminists.

Kadinlarin Sesi is the biggest monthly periodical in 1975. It reflects the ideology of an era in which the issue of women’s emancipation was focused only in terms of class paradigm.

The novel is about the daughter of a very conservative father who has old-fashioned ideas about the sexual relations between men and women, who is very jealous, exerting protective custody on his wife and daughters.

The Declaration of Women’s Liberation. The congress has also decided to begin a campaign called “Our Bodies belong to us and No to Sexual violence”.

This book makes the voices of the Kurdish women be heard.