Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: İstanbul Üniversitesi, Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi, Siyaset Bilimi Ve Uluslararası İlişkiler Bölümü, Türkiye
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2022
Tezin Dili: Türkçe
Öğrenci: Gamze Apaydın
Danışman: Serpil Çakır
Özet:
This study aims to examine the positioning of women in health policies and the discourse of sanitation in the early Republican period, and the way in which medicine one of the central technologies of power throughout the period, penetrated all areas of life through the concepts of health and morality, through the popular culture texts of the period.
In the study, the reflection of concepts such as biopolitics, anatomopolitics, thanatopolitics, affect, and the ideology of able-bodiedness is examined within the scope of the early Republican period through popular culture texts which focuses on health education and able-bodiedness, and the images and affects used in the construction of gendered bodies is evaluated together with the historical and theoretical background.
The administrative kadres and intellectuals of the era, who were just beginning to overcome the effects of a long period of war, adopted the improvement of the population in terms of quality and quantity as their main objective, centering the population and body as the object of power. The concepts of right, adequate, acceptable and the figure of perfect were used to make individuals adopt the so-called perfect in the imagination of the government and to legitimize the practices that restrict freedom. To this end especially health and sexuality, the medicalization of the body by medical discourse, played an important role in the construction of the perfect citizen figure. Biological and ideological functions of these categories constructed women as both the subject and object of the relations of power. For this purpose, the concepts of venereal diseases, morality, sexuality, and health were emphasized in the patrimonial, didactic and advisory texts of the period and used to govern bodies and minds.