WOMEN WRESTLING IN GENDER: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS Cover Image

CİNSİYETÇİLİK SARMALINDA KADIN GÜREŞÇİLER: SORUNLAR VE ÇÖZÜM ÖNERİLERİ
WOMEN WRESTLING IN GENDER: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS

Author(s): Nursel Uyaniker
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Customs / Folklore, Evaluation research, Sports Studies
Published by: Motif Halk Oyunları Eğitim ve Öğretim Vakfı
Keywords: Folklore; gender trouble; traditional Turkish sports; female wrestler; Istanbul;

Summary/Abstract: Gender, femininity and masculinity are brought from birth and are immutable; gender roles are changeable in a society. Gender is a biological reality; gender roles are cultural phenomena. In traditional cultures, social roles are taught to individuals. In this context, Turkish society has a traditional culture and has made some roles and responsibilities to individuals. The subject of the study is to interpret wrestling sport in terms of transition from tradition to modernity according to gender-based perspectives. In this study, the interaction between the gender approach and the sports institution will be evaluated in general. In Turkish culture, women's interest in traditional sports, problems of women wrestlers and solution suggestions will be indicated. The scope of the study is the difficulties experienced by women wrestling in the Free Wrestling category in Istanbul.

  • Issue Year: 12/2019
  • Issue No: 26
  • Page Range: 330-343
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Turkish