Possibilities of Empowerment Through Homemaking

Öz

The relationship between space and emotions encompasses a substantial layer of social life in which they are enacted. This article examines the mutually constitutive relationship between home and emotions from a feminist perspective, emphasizing the positive aspects of the foundational and dynamic relationship between home and emotions rather than the feminist viewpoint that portrays home as entirely negative for women. To endeavor this, I present the results of my qualitative research based on a series of in-depth interviews with two separate groups of 19 women who left their homes and set up new homes in İstanbul. The research focused on the findings on the role of emotions in forming relationships with home and the extended domestic material world. The results indicate that home can be discovered for women not only as a place of invisible labor, patriarchal oppression, and domestic violence, but also as a place of empowerment, confidence, and encouragement.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• home
• emotions
• homemaking
• domestic material world
• women's empowerment

Ev Kurarak Güçlenmenin İmkânları

Öz

Mekân ve duygular arasındaki ilişki sosyal yaşamın farklı bir katmanı hakkında önemli bilgiler içermektedir. Ancak duyguların, evle ilgili araştırmalarda inceleme konusu olması henüz çok yenidir. Bu makalede ev ve duygular arasındaki kurucu ve dinamik ilişki, duygu coğrafyasının ve ilişkisel mekân yaklaşımının kavramlarıyla tartışılır. Kadınlar arasındaki farklılığın hesaba katılmasıyla, eleştirel coğrafyacıların ve kültürel antropologların sosyal mekân çalışmaları bir araya geldiğinde, evi farklı yönleriyle de düşünmek mümkün olmuştur. Bu noktada evi kadınlar için tümüyle olumsuz ele alan bir feminist yaklaşım yerine, çoklu ilişkileri ve koşulların mevcudiyetini savunan eleştirel feminist düşünürlerle benzer bir çizgi benimsenir. İstanbul’da yaşayıp, yeni ev kurmuş iki farklı gruptan toplam 19 kadınla yaptığım derinlemesine görüşmeye dayalı alan araştırmasının bulguları makale kapsamında değerlendirilmiştir. Görüştüğüm kadınların ev ve ev içi maddi dünya ile kurdukları ilişkide duyguların nasıl bir rolü olduğu ele alınmaktadır. Araştırma bulgularına bağlı olarak kadınlar için ev, sadece görünmeyen emeğin, patriarkal baskının, ev içi şiddetin mekânı olarak değil, aynı zamanda olumlu duygularla güçlenebildikleri, gururlandıkları ve cesaretlendikleri mekân olarak da tartışılmaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• ev
• ev kurma
• duygular
• ev içi maddi dünya
• kadınların güçlenmesi

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