Issue Editors: Coşku Çelik, Elif Karaçimen, Havva Ezgi Doğru, Melda Yaman
In this issue, we discuss the negative effects of the worsening crisis conditions on women’s lives, the additional burdens it imposes on women, the effects of increasing conservatization and violence against women, women’s coping mechanisms with the crisis conditions, and the new opportunities that all these conditions will create in the struggle against capitalism and male domination. In a nutshell, crisis means increased unemployment, forced to work under much harsher conditions, widespread poverty, increased burden of care and social reproduction, and often rising conservatism and authoritarianism. The history of capitalism reveals that it is women who are the most impoverished during crises, the ones who are laid off the fastest or forced to work under the harshest conditions. On the one hand, it also shows that under conditions of increasing unemployment and poverty, women’s burden of reproduction and care in the household is multiplied. Capital’s response to the crisis and the post-crisis restructuring of capital and society are largely shaped by women’s labor and bodies:
Round Table: Crises and Women’s Labor – Solidarity, Struggle, Resistance Bahar Gök, Nazan Karacabey, Nuran Gülen. Ayşe Panuş, İrem Gerkuş, Selin Top, Feride Eralp.
The Production of Informality: Working Experiences of Iranian Refugee Women in Yalova Satellite City Cemile Gizem Dinçer
Urban Politics and Municipalism as a Field of Struggle to Overcome the Care Crisis: The Experience of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Nurseries ‘Child Activity Centers’ Deniz Ay
Vigil Against GPPs and Gendered Labor: A Life History Research in Gülpınar, Çanakkale Elif Sabahat Uyar-Burcu Saka
A Feminist Perspective on the Labor Processes and Solidarity Practices of Women Working in the Earthquake Zone Burcu Ayan –
AKP’s Gender Policies in its Quest to Reproduce Its Power Hande Beyza Doğdu
Houses in the Public Eye but Out of Sight: The Social Reproduction of Households and Labor in the Covid-19 Pandemic Sara Stevano, Alessandra Mezzadri, Lorena Lombardozzi and Hannah Bargawi
Global Capitalism, Patriarchy and the “Value” of Women’s Labor in the Work of Maria Mies Coşku Çelik
Producing Life: Towards a Holistic Feminist Theory Havva Ezgi Doğru
Bringing the Forgotten Back into the Focus of Criticism: On the Construction, Execution and Violation of Property in Turkey Fikri Buber and Yiğit Akçin
