Mass Communication in the Context of Feminist Critical Theory: Analysis of Violence Against Women

Year 2023, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 2 - 9, 31.03.2023

Nurgül Ergül Güvendi , Mehmet Erciş

Abstract

Folk songs are cultural and artistic products produced with both literary and auditory means. The processes of perceiving, interpreting and making sense of life by the individuals who make up the society cannot be considered independent of the environment and culture they belong to. Art works of a society are important historical cultural values that show the way that society perceives, interprets and makes sense of life. In this research, in which folk songs, which are one of the most important values of Turkish culture, are examined in the context of gender roles, physical factors such as the forced marriage of the woman at a young age by her own family, not being allowed to marry the person she wants, marrying someone younger than her due to the bride price, being taken into the sand because she has no children. and psychological violence. Folk songs are important in terms of evaluating gender roles, as they represent traditional characteristics, carry the role of cultural carrier and historical document, and are an indicator of socio-cultural structure. In addition, the discursive structure and messages of these ballads in the context of discourses that establish gender roles, which are at the core of feminist critical theory, are worth investigating. The aim of this study is to investigate the problems arising from gender roles. For this purpose, the folk songs created on a real experience were examined within the scope of violence against women. TRT Repertoire was used for data collection and descriptive analysis method was used for analysis. The results were evaluated in the context of feminist critical theory. Deciphering the negative discriminatory discourses on the female gender is very important for the analysis and transformation of the social structure. In the research, music, one of the branches of art, has been examined within the category of folk songs, which is a traditional communication element. As a mass media, folk songs with the theme of violence against women have been evaluated in the context of feminist theory. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of folk songs, which are one of the important elements of cultural structure, in terms of gender roles in mass communication. While our findings confirm the violence that women are exposed to in life, they show that these works should be replaced with different ideas and discourses.

Keywords

Mass Communication, Gender Roles, Turkish Folk Songs, Women, Feminist Critical Theory

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