Toplumsal Cinsiyet Rolleri Üzerinden Sembolik Şiddet: Türk Atasözleri Ve Deyimlerinde Annelik-Babalık Cinsiyet Rollerinin Kültür Kodlarına Dayalı Bir İnceleme
Symbolic Violence Through Social Gender Roles: An Analysis Based on Cultural Codes of Maternity-Paternity Gender Roles in Turkish Proverbs and Idioms

Summary/Abstract: Gender in the most general sense indicates that gender is created by socio-cultural qualities. Gender roles are cultural codes that are culturally produced but are engraved into bodies with attribution to biological sexism. Through the creation of gender roles, gender inequality is created and sustained. Language has a special place in this inequality, which persists its existence by functioning through bodies and minds through cultural codes. Language creates perception categories and is used as a legitimate means of inequality, because of the built-in cultural categories. Proverbs and idioms, which are the basic building blocks of a society and transmitted to future generations by maintaining through language, have an important place in the maintenance of gender roles. Turkish Proverbs and Idioms contain symbolic violent expressions that maintain gender inequality. The analysis of symbolic violence expressions brings awareness to these inequalities by giving us a thoughtful view. Based on this, the purpose of this article; is to define gender roles based on gender concept. In the context of symbolic violence, it is aimed to make an analysis of violence passing on to future generations, by analyzing the discourse and contents of symbolic violent expressions on maternal-paternal roles in Turkish Proverbs and Idioms.

• Details
• Contents