‘Şimdiyi Sürüklemek’: Ücretsiz Ev İçi Emeğin Feminist Perspektiften Değerlendirilmesi Ankara Örneği

Abstract

In this study housewives who are the owners of invisible labour, their natural hours, the dimensions of housewife, are subject to working with a Feminist Perspective. Housewives have been working for free in the domestic field since they were considered to have natural predispositions to family work due to gender roles. In the context of Turkish culture, answers were sought to questions such as the meaning of being a housewife and the impact of differences between women on a housewife. Housewives were considered a group of people in the context of group folklore and were considered from various angles. Participants consisted of housewife who did not work in any registered job during the study. In the selection of participants living in various districts of Ankara, criteria such as difference in education level and income level were taken into consideration. Face-to-face interviews with 44 participants, who were reached with the snowball sample, were carried out using qualitative research methods and folkloric interview methods. In the study, the origins of female-interior identification, gender roles, patriarchy, impact on the formation of housing woman, cultural transfer of the role of housing woman, forms of transfer to new generations through social learning, historical origin were investigated. The processes that normalized the invisible labor of the woman were examined with different family structures. Major changes, especially the Industrial Revolution, have affected the society, the family structure. In the light of this information, the data obtained from the participants were examined by taking into account the cultural elements such as home, family, motherhood and being a wife in the context of Turkish culture. Participants' attitudes towards housewife were investigated. Housewifery has been studied folklore within the scope of group folklore. The information obtained from the participants was evaluated in the context of Turkish culture. Housewife, which has not been dealt with before in the field of Turkısh folklore, has been put forward housewives' own statements and has been studied within the framework of folklore discipline. As a result of the researches, it was found that there are factors such as belief, motherhood and unemployment that the traditional family structure of Turkish culture should be maintained in becoming a housewife. It has been observed that the participants did not particularly prefer housewife, the vast majority of them were housewife due to unemployment and felt powerless socially and economically. In order to reduce the impact of social isolation brought on the intensity of housework, it was concluded that activities such as friends' meetings and days were important and functional for the majority of the participants.