Feminist Analysis of Rural Woman in a Village of Turkey

In 1980's and 1990's, discussing feminist
theory and research in any discipline needs a courage in
Turkey. Therefore, in 1998 this feminist research is
conducted in Alibeyli village in Aegean region in Turkey.
The research has its own theoretical structure to understand
the social, economic and ideological actions of rural women
in petty commodity producer households. Their experiences in
a patriarchal society are not only directly related to their
social actions but also their economic, political and
ideological actions that are not independent from economy,
culture and history. Moreover all actions of women are
theorised as their subject positions refer their experiences
and ideas about main structures of agriculture in Turkey
like unpaid household labour, wage labour, sexual division
of labour, subsistence economy and land. This study is a
pioneer about rural woman with the claim of discussing
feminist theory and methodology in Turkey hoping to
encourage the young social scientists in spite of its
limitations as a feminist study. This book should be
interesting and also helpful for anybody who wonders about a
woman study that is conducted for women by women with women.